Cats and dogs up close, sentence 12
Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should drink fresh water, not cow's milk.
Who acts: Most adult cats, cats · What happens: not digest, drink · To what, where: sugar, milk, fresh water
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 (Most adult cats, cats), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cats | amod |
| 2 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cats | amod |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 digest | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 digest | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 digest | advmod |
| 6 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sugar | det |
| 8 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 digest | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 milk | case |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sugar | nmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | _ | 6 digest | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drink | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 drink | advmod |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drink | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 drink | aux |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 digest | parataxis |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 milk | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 milk | advmod |
| 21 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 milk | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 cow | case |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 digest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not digest | can | Most adult cats | the sugar | milk | well property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | drink | should | cats | fresh water | cow's milk obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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:12.
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): 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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