Cats and dogs up close, sentence 13
Cats can be badly hurt in falls, so you never drop or throw a cat and keep windows and balconies safe.
Who acts: you · What happens: hurt, not drop, throw, keep · To what, where: Cats, falls, cat, windows
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), 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 | 5 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 falls | case |
| 7 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drop | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 drop | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 drop | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 drop | advmod |
| 12 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 throw | cc |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 drop | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throw | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 keep | cc |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 drop | conj |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keep | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 balconies | cc |
| 21 | balconies | balcony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 windows | conj |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can · passive | Cats | falls | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | not drop | present | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | a cat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | windows and balconies | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
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:13.
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.
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