Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 5
Today they curl up on our sofas and purr.
Who acts: rats · What happens: curl up, purr · To what, where: sofas
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 (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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curl | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 curl | nsubj |
| 3 | curl | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 curl | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sofas | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sofas | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sofas | sofa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 curl | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 purr | cc |
| 9 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 curl | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 curl | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | present | rats = rat | our sofas | today | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | purr | present | rats = rat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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:5.
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): no change. 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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