Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 3

Each one picks out one sign and forgets the rest: a dog may wag because it is nervous, and a cat may purr because it is hurt.

Who acts: one, dog, cat · What happens: pick out, forget, wag, be, purr, hurt · To what, where: one sign, rest, dog

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 (one, dog, cat), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	nsubj
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 picks	compound:prt
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sign	nummod
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picks	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forgets	cc
8	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picks	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgets	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 wag	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wag	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wag	aux
15	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rest	acl
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 nervous	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nervous	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 nervous	cop
19	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wag	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 purr	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 purr	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 purr	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 purr	aux
25	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wag	conj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 hurt	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hurt	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hurt	aux:pass
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 purr	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick out	present	each one	one sign		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
2	forget	present	each one not said here	the rest		tree rules
3	wag	may	a dog	the rest not said here		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
4	is	present	dog		nervous property	tree rules
5	purr	may	a cat			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hurt	present · passive		dog		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:3.

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): no change. 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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