Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 13

Real cats do hunt mice and often play with them first, which is practice; real mice cannot outsmart a cat with traps and hammers as Jerry does.

Who acts: Real cats, real mice · What happens: hunt, play, be, not outsmart · To what, where: mice, practice, cat

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 (Real cats, real mice), 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 hunt	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 play	cc
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 play	advmod
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 play	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 play	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 practice	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 practice	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 practice	cop
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 outsmart	punct
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mice	amod
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 outsmart	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 outsmart	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 outsmart	advmod
21	outsmart	outsmart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 outsmart	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 traps	case
25	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 outsmart	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hammers	cc
27	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 traps	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 does	mark
29	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 does	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 outsmart	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hunt	present · do-support	Real cats	mice		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	play	present	Real cats not said here		with mice = mouse; first, often property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
3	is a	present		practice		tree rules
4	not outsmart	can	real mice	a cat	with traps and hammers	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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