How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 7

Cats have one life; they are agile (quick and good at balancing) and often survive falls and scrapes, which is where the saying comes from.

Who acts: Cats, lives, saying · What happens: have, be, balance, survive, come from · To what, where: one life, falls

This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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, lives, saying), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 life	nummod
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 agile	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 agile	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 agile	cop
8	agile	agile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	parataxis
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 quick	punct
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 agile	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 good	cc
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quick	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 balancing	case
14	balancing	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 good	obl
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 quick	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 survive	cc
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 survive	advmod
18	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 agile	conj
19	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 survive	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scrapes	cc
21	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 falls	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 where	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 where	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 where	cop
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 have	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 saying	det
27	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 where	ccomp
29	from	from	ADP	_	28 comes	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cats	one life		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
2	is	present	lives = life		agile property	tree rules
3	balance	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	survive	present	lives = life not said here	falls and scrapes	often property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Circumstance
5	is	present			where property	tree rules
6	come from	present	the saying			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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