Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 13
Pet cats kill very large numbers of small birds and animals each year, and a bell on the collar, a bright collar cover or keeping the cat in at dawn and dusk can help protect them.
Who acts: Pet cats, bell · What happens: kill, keep, help, protect · To what, where: large numbers, cat, bell
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 (Pet cats, bell), 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 | Pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cats | compound |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 numbers | amod |
| 6 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 numbers | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 animals | cc |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 birds | conj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bell | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bell | det |
| 17 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 help | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 collar | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 collar | det |
| 20 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bell | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cover | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cover | det |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cover | amod |
| 24 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cover | compound |
| 25 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bell | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 keeping | cc |
| 27 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 cover | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cat | det |
| 29 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeping | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 dawn | case |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 dawn | case |
| 32 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeping | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dusk | cc |
| 34 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dawn | conj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 help | aux |
| 36 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 37 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 help | xcomp |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 protect | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Pet cats | large numbers of small birds and animals | year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover not said here | the cat | dawn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | can | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | protect | infinitive | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover not said here | bell | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:13.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/13/