Cats and dogs up close, sentence 8

A family in Leeds kept lilies in a vase where their cat could reach; the cat chewed a leaf, its kidneys began to fail and it needed days of treatment at the vet.

Who acts: family, cat, kidneys · What happens: keep, reach, chew, begin, fail, need · To what, where: lilies, vase, leaf, 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 (family, cat, kidneys), 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 vase	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vase	det
9	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 reach	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cat	nmod:poss
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reach	aux
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 vase	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 chewed	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chewed	nsubj
18	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 leaf	det
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chewed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 kidneys	nmod:poss
23	kidneys	kidney	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chewed	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fail	mark
26	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 needed	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 needed	nsubj
29	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 began	conj
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 needed	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 treatment	case
32	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 days	nmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 vet	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 vet	det
35	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 needed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	a family in Leeds	lilies	a vase		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lily=Theme in vase=Location
2	reach	could	lilies's cat				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chew	past	the cat	a leaf			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	begin	past	family's kidneys				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fail	to-infinitive	family's kidneys not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	need	past	family		the vet	day	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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