Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 4
That is why people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years: to catch the mice and rats that ate the grain.
Who acts: That, people, mice · What happens: be, keep, catch, eat · To what, where: cats, farms, mice, grain
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 (That, people, mice), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl |
| 6 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 farms | case |
| 8 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ships | cc |
| 10 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 farms | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 thousands | case |
| 12 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thousands | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 catch | mark |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kept | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mice | det |
| 19 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 catch | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rats | cc |
| 21 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mice | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ate | nsubj |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grain | det |
| 25 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ate | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | 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 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | people | cats | farms and ships | for thousands of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on farm=Location | ||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | people not said here | the mice and rats | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | the mice and rats | the grain | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |
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:4.
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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