Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 2
Real cats do hunt mice, and people have kept cats for thousands of years partly for that job, but a real hunting cat is silent: it creeps, waits and pounces, because a mouse runs at the first strange sound.
Who acts: Real cats, people, real hunting cat, cat, mouse · What happens: hunt, keep, be, creep, wait, pounce · To what, where: mice, cats, first strange sound
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 (Real cats, people, real hunting cat, cat), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunt | aux |
| 4 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | aux |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 hunt | conj |
| 11 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 thousands | case |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thousands | nmod |
| 16 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 19 job | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 job | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 job | det |
| 19 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silent | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 silent | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cat | amod |
| 24 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cat | compound |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 silent | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 silent | cop |
| 27 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunt | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 creeps | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 creeps | nsubj |
| 30 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunt | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 waits | punct |
| 32 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 creeps | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pounces | cc |
| 34 | pounces | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 creeps | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 runs | punct |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 runs | mark |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 mouse | det |
| 38 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 runs | nsubj |
| 39 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunt | advcl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 sound | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sound | det |
| 42 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 44 sound | amod |
| 43 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sound | amod |
| 44 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 runs | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present · do-support | Real cats | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · perfect | people | cats | for thousands of years; for that job | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | a real hunting cat | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep | present | cat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wait | present | cat not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pounce | present | cat not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | run | present | a mouse | the first strange sound | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Trajectory |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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