Cats and dogs up close, sentence 10

A cat that rubs against your legs is leaving its scent on you, a friendly way of saying you belong to it.

Who acts: cat, friendly way, you, family · What happens: rub, leave, say, belong, scent · To what, where: legs, scent, family · 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 (cat, friendly way, you, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rubs	nsubj
4	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cat	acl:relcl
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubs	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 leaving	aux
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 scent	nmod:poss
11	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 leaving	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaving	parataxis
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 saying	mark
19	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	acl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 belong	nsubj
21	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 belong	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 leaving	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rub	present	a cat			your legs		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against leg=Destination
2	leave	present · progressive	a cat	family's scent			on you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scent=Theme on you=Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	a friendly way not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	belong	present	you		family			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	scent		family					nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:10.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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