Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 13
House cats come from the African wildcat; people began living with them about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, and a cat was buried with a person on Cyprus about 9,500 years ago.
Who acts: House cats, people · What happens: come, begin, live, bury · To what, where: African wildcat, Middle East, cat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (House cats, people), 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 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cats | compound |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wildcat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wildcat | det |
| 6 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wildcat | amod |
| 7 | wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 living | obl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 10,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 living | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 East | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 East | det |
| 20 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | _ | 21 East | flat |
| 21 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 buried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 buried | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 buried | aux:pass |
| 27 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 person | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 person | det |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 buried | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Cyprus | case |
| 32 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 person | nmod |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 9,500 | advmod |
| 34 | 9,500 | 9,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 years | nummod |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 27 buried | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | 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 | come | present | House cats | the African wildcat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wildcat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | people | the Middle East | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | people not said here | with people; ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | ||||
| 4 | bury | past · passive | a cat | with a person on Cyprus; ago property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×4. 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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