Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 7
Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet.
Who acts: Tom, cartoon cats, saucers · What happens: not catch, lap, land · To what, where: Jerry, saucers, feet
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 (Tom, cartoon cats, saucers), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 catches | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 catches | advmod |
| 3 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jerry | Jerry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 catches | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lap | punct |
| 6 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cats | compound |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lap | nsubj |
| 8 | lap | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 catches | parataxis |
| 9 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lap | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 milk | case |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saucers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 land | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 land | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 land | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 land | advmod |
| 16 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 catches | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 land | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | present | Tom | Jerry | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lap | present | cartoon cats | saucers of milk | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | land | present | saucers = saucer | saucers's feet | always property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination |
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:7.
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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