Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 11
Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, frightened or giving birth; purring may help them calm down.
Who acts: Cats, purring · What happens: purr, hurt, frighten, give, help, calm down · To what, where: birth, Cats
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, purring), 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 | 2 purr | nsubj |
| 2 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 content | mark |
| 4 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 purr | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hurt | cc |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 content | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hurt | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 giving | cc |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 frightened | conj |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 16 | purring | purr | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 help | csubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 purr | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 calm | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 purr | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purr | present | Cats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hurt | participle | Cats not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | Cats not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | give | gerund | Cats not said here | birth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | purr | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | help | may | purring | Cats = cat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | calm down | infinitive | Cats = cat not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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