Cats and dogs up close, sentence 9
A cat that swishes, lashes or thumps its tail while being stroked is annoyed and may soon scratch or bite, so you stop and let it walk away.
Who acts: cat, you, family · What happens: swish, lash, thump, stroke, be, scratch · To what, where: tail, family
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, you, family), 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 | 15 annoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 swishes | nsubj |
| 4 | swishes | swish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cat | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lashes | punct |
| 6 | lashes | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swishes | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 thumps | cc |
| 8 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swishes | conj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thumps | obj |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 stroked | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stroked | aux:pass |
| 13 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swishes | advcl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 annoyed | cop |
| 15 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scratch | cc |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratch | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 scratch | advmod |
| 19 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 annoyed | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 bite | cc |
| 21 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 scratch | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 stop | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stop | nsubj |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 annoyed | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 let | cc |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stop | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 let | xcomp |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 walk | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swish | present | a cat | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lash | present | a cat not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | thump | present | a cat not said here | family's tail | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stroke | gerund · passive | a cat not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | is | present | a cat | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | scratch | may | a cat not said here | soon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | bite | infinitive | a cat not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | stop | present | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | let | infinitive | you not said here | family | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | walk away | infinitive | family not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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