Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 21

Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day, because hunters save energy between short bursts of action, and lions also sleep most of the day.

Who acts: Cats, hunters, lions · What happens: sleep, save, burst · To what, where: energy, most, action

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, hunters, lions), 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 sleep	nsubj
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 12	advmod
4	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 16	case
6	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 12	nmod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sleep	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hunters	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 save	mark
12	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 save	nsubj
13	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sleep	advcl
14	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 save	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	17 bursts	case
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bursts	amod
17	bursts	burst	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 save	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 action	case
19	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bursts	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sleep	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sleep	cc
22	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sleep	nsubj
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 sleep	advmod
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sleep	conj
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 sleep	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	Cats		day; hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	save	present	hunters	energy		between short bursts of action	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
3	sleep	present	lions	most of the day			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
4	burst			action			nom burst «act transitive»: of=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:21.

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. 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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