Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 6
Real cats do hunt mice, but many well-fed house cats are lazy hunters, and some are even scared of rats.
Who acts: Real cats, many fed house cats, some · What happens: hunt, feed, be · To what, where: mice, lazy hunters
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, many fed house cats, some), 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 | _ | 16 hunters | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hunters | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cats | amod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 fed | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 11 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cats | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cats | compound |
| 13 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hunters | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunters | cop |
| 15 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hunters | amod |
| 16 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunt | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 scared | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 scared | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 scared | cop |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 scared | advmod |
| 22 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hunters | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 rats | case |
| 24 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | feed | participle | well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | many fed house cats | lazy hunters | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | some | of rats; scared 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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:6.
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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