Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 9

Wild cats came to the first farming villages in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago to hunt mice in the grain stores, and people let them stay.

Who acts: Wild cats, people, mice · What happens: come, hunt, let, stay · To what, where: first farming villages, mice, grain stores

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 (Wild cats, people, mice), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 villages	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 villages	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 villages	amod
7	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 villages	compound
8	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 East	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 East	det
11	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 East	flat
12	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 villages	nmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 10,000	advmod
14	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ago	obl:unmarked
16	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hunt	mark
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunt	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 stores	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stores	det
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stores	compound
23	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunt	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 let	nsubj
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Wild cats		the first farming villages in the Middle East	ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
2	hunt	to-infinitive	Wild cats not said here	mice	the grain stores		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in store=Location
3	let	past	people	mice = mouse			tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	mice = mouse not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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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