Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 4
Later, cats sailed on ships to catch rats, and that is how they spread around the world.
Who acts: cats, that, rats · What happens: sail, catch, be, spread · To what, where: ships, rats, world
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, that, rats), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sailed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sailed | advcl |
| 9 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spread | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spread | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 how | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 how | cop |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 spread | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | cats | ships | late property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | cats not said here | rats | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | rats = rat | the world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around world=Location |
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:4.
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): 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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