Cats and dogs up close, sentence 15

A cat that stops eating, or keeps going to the litter box without passing anything, may be seriously ill and needs a vet quickly.

Who acts: cat, litter box · What happens: stop, eating, keep, go, pass, be · To what, where: litter box, anything, vet

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, litter box), 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	21 ill	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cat	acl:relcl
5	eating	eating	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stops	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keeps	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 keeps	cc
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stops	conj
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 box	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
12	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 box	compound
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 passing	mark
15	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 box	acl
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 passing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cat	punct
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ill	cop
20	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	21 ill	advmod
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 needs	cc
23	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 vet	det
25	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	obj
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 needs	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a cat				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eating	gerund	a cat not said here				tree rules
3	keep	present	a cat not said here				tree rules
4	go	gerund	a cat not said here		the litter box		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to box=Initial_Location
5	pass	gerund	the litter box not said here	anything			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Trajectory
6	is	may	a cat			ill, seriously property	tree rules
7	need	present	a cat not said here	a vet		quickly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=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:15.

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.

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