Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 6

Many cats bring prey home and leave it on the doormat or floor; the cat is carrying food back to a safe place, not thanking or rewarding you.

Who acts: Many cats, cat · What happens: bring, leave, carry, not thank, reward · To what, where: prey, doormat, food, you

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 (Many cats, cat), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leave	cc
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 doormat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doormat	det
11	doormat	doormat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 floor	cc
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doormat	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 carrying	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 carrying	aux
18	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bring	parataxis
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 carrying	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 place	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 place	det
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 place	amod
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 back	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thanking	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 thanking	advmod
27	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 carrying	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 rewarding	cc
29	rewarding	reward	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 thanking	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 rewarding	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Many cats	prey			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
2	leave	present	Many cats not said here	prey		the doormat or floor		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on doormat=Location
3	carry	present · progressive	the cat	food				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	not thank speech: thank	gerund	the cat not said here					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	reward	gerund	the cat not said here		you			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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: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): 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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