Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 8

Real cats usually catch the mouse, milk upsets most grown-up cats' tummies, and a fall from a window can badly hurt them.

Who acts: Real cats, milk, fall · What happens: catch, upset, grow, hurt · To what, where: mouse, tummies

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 (Real cats, milk, fall), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 catch	advmod
4	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 upsets	punct
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 upsets	nsubj
9	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	conj
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 grown	advmod
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cats	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 grown	compound
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tummies	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 cats	case
16	tummies	tummy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 upsets	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hurt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fall	det
20	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hurt	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	nmod
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hurt	aux
25	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 hurt	advmod
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catch	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hurt	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Real cats	the mouse	usually property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	upset	present	milk	grown cats's tummies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer
3	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hurt	can	a fall from a window	tummies = tummy	badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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