Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 18

Most pet cats are ordinary mixed cats, and grey, which is a «diluted» black, is common; almost all tortoiseshell and calico cats are female.

Who acts: Most pet cats, grey, tortoiseshell cats · What happens: mix, be, dilute · To what, where: ordinary mixed cats, «

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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 (Most pet cats, grey, tortoiseshell cats), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cats	amod
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cats	compound
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cats	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cats	cop
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
6	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cats	amod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 common	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grey	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grey	cc
10	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 common	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 «	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 «	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 «	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 «	det
15	«	«	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grey	obl
16	diluted	dilute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 «	acl
17	»	»	ADP	_	18 black	case
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 diluted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cats	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 common	cop
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tortoiseshell	punct
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 all	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 cats	det
25	tortoiseshell	tortoiseshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cats	compound
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 calico	cc
27	calico	calico	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tortoiseshell	conj
28	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 female	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 female	cop
30	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 common	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mix	participle				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Most pet cats	ordinary mixed cats		tree rules
3	is a	present	grey	a «		tree rules
4	dilute in a quote	participle		a « not said here	» black	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	present	grey		common property	tree rules
6	is	present	all tortoiseshell cats		female property	tree rules

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:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:18.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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