Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers, sentence 4

Cats are predators: even well-fed pet cats hunt mice, birds and insects, and pet cats in Britain have been estimated to catch tens of millions of animals a year.

Who acts: Cats, fed pet cats · What happens: be, feed, hunt, estimate, catch · To what, where: predators, mice, pet cats, tens

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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, fed pet cats), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 predators	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 predators	cop
3	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 estimated	parataxis
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 hunt	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	10 cats	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fed	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cats	amod
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cats	compound
10	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	nsubj
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 predators	parataxis
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunt	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 birds	punct
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mice	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 insects	cc
16	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mice	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 estimated	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cats	cc
19	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cats	compound
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 estimated	nsubj:pass
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Britain	case
22	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cats	nmod
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 estimated	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 estimated	aux:pass
25	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 catch	mark
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 estimated	xcomp
28	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 catch	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 millions	case
30	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tens	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 animals	case
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 millions	nmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 year	det
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 catch	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 predators	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cats	predators			tree rules
2	feed	participle				well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	present	fed pet cats	mice and birds and insects			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
4	estimate	present · perfect · passive		pet cats in Britain			tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive		tens of millions of animals	year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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