Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 10
The oldest known cat buried with a person was found in Cyprus and is about 9,500 years old.
What happens: know, bury, find, be · To what, where: oldest known cat, Cyprus
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 cat | amod |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cat | amod |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cat | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buried | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Cyprus | case |
| 12 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 old | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 old | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 9,500 | advmod |
| 16 | 9,500 | 9,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 old | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | bury | participle | the oldest known cat not said here | with a person | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | the oldest known cat | Cyprus | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | present | year | old property | 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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:10.
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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