Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 14

Cats jump at a cucumber placed silently behind them because something new and snake-like has suddenly appeared, and scaring pets on purpose is unkind.

Who acts: Cats, something, scaring · What happens: jump, place, appear, scare, be · To what, where: cucumber, pets, purpose

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 (Cats, something, scaring), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jump	nsubj
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 cucumber	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cucumber	det
5	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jump	obl
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cucumber	acl
7	silently	silently	ADV	_	6 placed	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 placed	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 appeared	mark
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 appeared	nsubj
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 like	cc
14	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
16	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	conj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 appeared	aux
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 appeared	advmod
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 jump	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unkind	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unkind	cc
22	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 unkind	csubj
23	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scaring	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 purpose	case
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scaring	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 unkind	cop
27	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jump	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jump	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	present	Cats		a cucumber		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cucumber=Trajectory
2	place	participle		a cucumber not said here		behind mice = mouse; silently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind they=Destination
3	appear	present · perfect	something			suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scare	gerund		pets	purpose		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pet=Experiencer
5	is	present	scaring			unkind 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:14.

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, R6-punct-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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