Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 2
People let the useful hunters stay, so in a way cats tamed themselves.
Who acts: People, useful hunters, cats · What happens: let, stay, tame · To what, where: hunters, way
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 (People, useful hunters, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunters | det |
| 4 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunters | amod |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tamed | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tamed | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tamed | obl |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tamed | nsubj |
| 13 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 let | parataxis |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 tamed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | People | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | the useful hunters | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tame | participle | cats | hunters = hunter | a way | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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:2.
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): R8-pos-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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