Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 16

Black cats are ordinary cats; in Britain and Japan a black cat is often called good luck, which shows these "rules" are made up and differ from place to place.

Who acts: Black cats, good luck · What happens: be, call, show, make up, differ · To what, where: ordinary cats, black cat, Britain, rules · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (Black cats, good luck), 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	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cats	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cats	cop
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cats	amod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 cats	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Japan	cc
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Britain	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cat	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cat	amod
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux:pass
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 called	advmod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cats	parataxis
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 luck	amod
18	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 luck	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 shows	nsubj
21	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 luck	acl:relcl
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 rules	det
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 rules	punct
24	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 made	nsubj:pass
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 rules	punct
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 shows	ccomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 made	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 differ	cc
30	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 made	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 place	case
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 differ	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 place	case
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 place	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Black cats	ordinary cats			tree rules
2	call	present · passive		a black cat	Britain and Japan	often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	show	present	good luck				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make up	present · passive		this rules			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
5	differ	present				from place to place	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from place=Co-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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:16.

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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