Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 9

Cats do not suck the breath out of babies; that is an old superstition (a belief with no real reason behind it), but pets and babies should always be supervised for the safety of both.

Who acts: Cats, that · What happens: not suck, be, supervise · To what, where: breath, babies, old superstition, 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 (Cats, that), 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	4 suck	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suck	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 suck	advmod
4	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breath	det
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suck	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 babies	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 out	fixed
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 breath	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 superstition	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 superstition	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 superstition	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 superstition	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 superstition	amod
15	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suck	parataxis
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 belief	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 belief	det
18	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 superstition	appos
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 reason	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 reason	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reason	amod
22	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belief	nmod
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reason	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 belief	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 supervised	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 supervised	cc
28	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 supervised	nsubj:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 babies	cc
30	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pets	conj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 supervised	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 supervised	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 supervised	aux:pass
34	supervised	supervise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 suck	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 safety	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 safety	det
37	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 supervised	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 both	case
39	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	37 safety	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suck	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not suck	present · do-support	Cats	the breath	babies		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme out baby=Source
2	is a	present	that	a old superstition			tree rules
3	supervise	should · passive		pets and babies		for the safety of both; always property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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