Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 8
Real cats often catch mice, and people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years for this job; the Tom and Jerry story where the mouse always wins is cartoon fun.
Who acts: Real cats, people, mouse, Tom story · What happens: catch, keep, win, be · To what, where: mice, cats, farms, cartoon fun
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 (Real cats, people, mouse, Tom story), 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 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 catch | advmod |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 catch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kept | cc |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | conj |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 farms | case |
| 12 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ships | cc |
| 14 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 farms | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 job | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 job | det |
| 21 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 story | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 24 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 story | compound |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Jerry | cc |
| 26 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tom | conj |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fun | nsubj |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 wins | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mouse | det |
| 30 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wins | nsubj |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 wins | advmod |
| 32 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 story | acl:relcl |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 fun | cop |
| 34 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fun | compound |
| 35 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | 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 | catch | present | Real cats | mice | often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | people | cats | farms and ships | for thousands of years; for this job | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on farm=Location | ||
| 3 | win | present | the mouse | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the Tom story | cartoon fun | 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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:8.
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.
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