Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 19
Pet cats that go outside kill many wild birds and small animals, and in Australia cats are a big threat to native animals; a bell on the collar and keeping cats in at night help.
Who acts: Pet cats, Australia cats, bell · What happens: go, kill, be, keep in, help · To what, where: many wild birds, big threat, cats
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 (Pet cats, Australia cats, bell), 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 | Pet | Pet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cats | compound |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cats | acl:relcl |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birds | amod |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 animals | cc |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 birds | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 threat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 threat | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cats | case |
| 16 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cats | compound |
| 17 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 threat | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 threat | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 threat | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 threat | amod |
| 21 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 animals | case |
| 23 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 animals | amod |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 threat | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 bell | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bell | det |
| 27 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 help | nsubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 collar | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 collar | det |
| 30 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bell | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 keeping | cc |
| 32 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 bell | conj |
| 33 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keeping | obj |
| 34 | in | in | PART | _ | 32 keeping | compound:prt |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 keeping | obl |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Pet cats | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | Pet cats | many wild birds and small animals | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Australia cats | a big threat | to native animals | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep in | gerund | a bell on the collar not said here | cats | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||
| 5 | help | present | a bell on the collar | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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 ×2, 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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