Cats and dogs up close, sentence 0

Cats and dogs cannot talk, but they tell us how they feel with their tails, ears, faces and bodies, and a good friend to animals learns to read these signals.

Who acts: Cats, good friend · What happens: not talk, tell, feel, learn, read · To what, where: us, signals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (Cats, good friend), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dogs	cc
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	conj
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 feel	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 tails	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tails	nmod:poss
17	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ears	punct
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tails	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 faces	punct
21	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tails	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bodies	cc
23	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tails	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 learns	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 learns	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 friend	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 friend	amod
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 learns	nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 animals	case
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 friend	nmod
31	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 read	mark
33	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 learns	xcomp
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 signals	det
35	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 read	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not talk	can	Cats and dogs				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	Cats = cat		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	feel	present	Cats = cat			with Cats's tails and ears and faces and bodies	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	learn	present	a good friend to animals				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	read	to-infinitive	a good friend to animals not said here	this signals			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Topic

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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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