Cats and dogs up close, sentence 11
You let a strange cat sniff a finger held low and stroke it only if it rubs against you.
Who acts: You, strange cat, finger · What happens: let, sniff, hold, stroke, rub · To what, where: finger
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 (You, strange cat, finger), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cat | amod |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sniff | nsubj |
| 6 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 finger | det |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sniff | obj |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 finger | acl |
| 10 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 held | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stroke | cc |
| 12 | stroke | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sniff | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stroke | obj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 rubs | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 rubs | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rubs | nsubj |
| 17 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stroke | advcl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 rubs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sniff | infinitive | a strange cat | a finger | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | a finger not said here | low property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stroke | infinitive | a strange cat not said here | finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rub a condition, not said to happen | present | finger | against you | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against you=Destination |
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:11.
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): no change. 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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