Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 5

Some old ideas were never true at all, like cats sucking the breath out of babies, but the worry behind them can still lead to a sensible rule: keep pets and babies supervised.

Who acts: old ideas, cats, worry, sensible rule, pets · What happens: not be, suck, lead, keep, supervise · To what, where: all, breath, babies, pets

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 (old ideas, cats, worry, sensible rule), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ideas	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ideas	amod
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 true	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 true	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sucking	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 sucking	mark
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sucking	nsubj
12	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 true	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 breath	det
14	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sucking	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 babies	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 babies	case
17	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sucking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lead	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lead	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 worry	det
21	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lead	nsubj
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 worry	nmod
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 lead	aux
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 lead	advmod
26	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 rule	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rule	det
29	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 rule	amod
30	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lead	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 keep	punct
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 rule	acl
33	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 keep	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 babies	cc
35	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pets	conj
36	supervised	supervise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 keep	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	some old ideas		all		true property	tree rules
2	suck	gerund	cats	the breath	babies			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme out baby=Source
3	lead	can	the worry behind Cats			still	to a sensible rule	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to rule=Patient
4	keep	infinitive	a sensible rule not said here	pets and babies				tree rules
5	supervise	participle	pets and babies not said here					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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:5.

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 ×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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