Cats and dogs up close, sentence 4
Some old beliefs are wrong and can hurt pets: cats do not always land safely on their feet, most grown cats get tummy upsets from cow's milk, and cooked bones are dangerous for dogs.
Who acts: old beliefs, cats, grown cats, cooked bones · What happens: be, hurt, not land, grow, get, cook · To what, where: pets, feet, tummy upsets, milk
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 (old beliefs, cats, grown cats, cooked bones), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 beliefs | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beliefs | amod |
| 3 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurt | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wrong | conj |
| 9 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 11 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 land | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 land | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 land | advmod |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 land | advmod |
| 15 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | parataxis |
| 16 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 15 land | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 land | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 grown | advmod |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 cats | amod |
| 23 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 get | nsubj |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 land | parataxis |
| 25 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 upsets | compound |
| 26 | upsets | upset | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 milk | case |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 milk | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 cow | case |
| 30 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dangerous | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dangerous | cc |
| 33 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 bones | amod |
| 34 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 dangerous | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dangerous | cop |
| 36 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 get | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 dogs | case |
| 38 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 dangerous | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some old beliefs | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | can | some old beliefs not said here | pets | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not land | present · do-support | cats | Cats's feet | always, safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on foot=Destination | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | grown cats | tummy upsets | cow's milk | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent upset=Theme from milk=Source | |||
| 6 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | is | present | cooked bones | for dogs; dangerous property | tree rules |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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