Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 7
A cat was buried next to a person in Cyprus about 9,500 years ago, so cats and people were already living together near stores of grain.
Who acts: cats · What happens: bury, live together · To what, where: cat, stores
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux:pass |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 buried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Cyprus | case |
| 10 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 person | nmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 9,500 | advmod |
| 12 | 9,500 | 9,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 buried | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 living | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 living | advmod |
| 17 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 living | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cats | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 living | aux |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 living | advmod |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 buried | conj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 living | advmod |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 stores | case |
| 25 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 living | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 grain | case |
| 27 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stores | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | a cat | to a person in Cyprus; ago, next property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live together | past · progressive | cats and people | stores of grain | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near store=Location |
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: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): R5-strong ×3. 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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