The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 8

Connor's cat Sooty avoids him because he plays his drum kit next to her basket; he moves the drums to the garage and a week later she sits on his bed.

Who acts: cat, Nugget · What happens: avoid, play, move, sit · To what, where: Nugget, drum kit, drums, garage, bed

This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Nugget), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cat	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Connor	case
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoids	nsubj
4	Sooty	Sooty	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cat	appos
5	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 avoids	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 plays	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plays	nsubj
9	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 avoids	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kit	nmod:poss
11	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kit	compound
12	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plays	obj
13	next	next	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 plays	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 basket	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 basket	nmod:poss
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 next	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 moves	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moves	nsubj
19	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 avoids	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 drums	det
21	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 moves	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 garage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 garage	det
24	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moves	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sits	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 week	det
27	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 later	obl:unmarked
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 sits	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sits	nsubj
30	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 moves	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bed	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sits	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 avoids	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	Connor's cat	Nugget			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
2	play	present	Nugget	Nugget's drum kit		next property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Theme
3	move	present	Nugget	the drums	the garage		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drum=Theme to garage=Trajectory
4	sit	present	cat		Nugget's bed	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:8.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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