Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 1
Cats do have a brilliant twist called the righting reflex that turns them feet-down in the air, but they still get badly hurt in falls, especially from high windows; a clever skill isn't a superpower.
Who acts: Cats, brilliant twist, righting reflex, clever skill · What happens: have, call, turn, hurt, not be · To what, where: brilliant twist, righting reflex, Cats, falls, superpower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (Cats, brilliant twist, righting reflex, clever skill), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 twist | det |
| 5 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 twist | amod |
| 6 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 twist | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reflex | det |
| 9 | righting | righting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reflex | compound |
| 10 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 turns | nsubj |
| 12 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reflex | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turns | obj |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 down | obl |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 turns | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turns | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurt | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hurt | aux:pass |
| 25 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 called | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 falls | case |
| 28 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hurt | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 windows | punct |
| 30 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 33 windows | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 windows | case |
| 32 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 windows | amod |
| 33 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 falls | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 superpower | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 skill | det |
| 36 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 skill | amod |
| 37 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 superpower | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 superpower | cop |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 superpower | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 superpower | det |
| 41 | superpower | superpower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | Cats | a brilliant twist | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a brilliant twist not said here | the righting reflex | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | the righting reflex | Cats = cat | in the air; down property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in air=Topic | |||
| 4 | hurt | present · passive | Cats = cat | falls and high windows | still | badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||
| 5 | not is a | present | a clever skill | a superpower | 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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