How animals hunt, sentence 16
Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in.
Who acts: Cats, fed pet cats · What happens: be, feed, hunt, chase, pounce, build in · To what, where: ambush hunters, urge
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 | 4 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | cop |
| 3 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunters | compound |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hunt | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hunt | cc |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 cats | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fed | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fed | punct |
| 10 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cats | amod |
| 11 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cats | compound |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hunt | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 hunt | advmod |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | conj |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 built | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 urge | det |
| 17 | urge | urge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 built | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 chase | mark |
| 19 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 urge | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pounce | cc |
| 21 | pounce | pounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 chase | conj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 built | aux:pass |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hunt | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 built | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cats | ambush hunters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feed | participle | well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hunt | present | fed pet cats | still | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | chase | to-infinitive | the urge not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pounce | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | build in | present · passive | the urge | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:16.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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