Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 12
Cats sometimes make a fast chattering or clicking sound at birds through a window; nobody knows for sure why, and ideas include frustration, a practice killing bite or copying bird calls.
Who acts: Cats, nobody, ideas · What happens: make, click, know, include, copy · To what, where: fast chattering, sound, frustration, bird calls
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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, nobody, ideas), 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 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chattering | det |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chattering | amod |
| 6 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 clicking | cc |
| 8 | clicking | click | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 chattering | conj |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clicking | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 clicking | obl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 knows | punct |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sure | case |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knows | obl |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 knows | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 include | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 include | cc |
| 23 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 include | nsubj |
| 24 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knows | conj |
| 25 | frustration | frustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 include | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bite | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 practice | det |
| 28 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 killing | compound |
| 29 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bite | compound |
| 30 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 frustration | conj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 copying | cc |
| 32 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 bite | conj |
| 33 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 calls | compound |
| 34 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 copying | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cats | a fast chattering | sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chattering=Product | |||
| 2 | click | gerund | Cats not said here | sound | at birds through a window | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present | nobody | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | include | present | ideas | frustration and killing bite | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frustration=Theme | ||||
| 5 | copy | gerund | ideas not said here | bird calls | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=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:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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