Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 1
About 10,000 years ago, when the first farmers in the Middle East stored grain, mice moved in, and wild cats followed the mice.
Who acts: first farmers, mice, wild cats · What happens: store, move in, follow · To what, where: grain, mice
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and 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 (first farmers, mice, wild cats), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 moved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 stored | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farmers | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 farmers | amod |
| 9 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stored | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 East | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 East | det |
| 12 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 East | compound |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 farmers | nmod |
| 14 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 moved | advcl |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stored | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stored | punct |
| 17 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 moved | nsubj |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 moved | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 followed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 followed | cc |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cats | amod |
| 23 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 followed | nsubj |
| 24 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 moved | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mice | det |
| 26 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 followed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | past | the first farmers in the Middle East | grain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move in | past | mice | ago property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | wild cats | the mice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:1.
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. 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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