--- title: A cat was buried next to a person in Cyprus about 9,500 years ago, s… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: A cat was buried next to a person in Cyprus about 9,500 years ago, so cats and people were already living together near stores of grain. Who acts: cats. A sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/) / 7 # Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 7 A cat was buried next to a person in Cyprus about 9,500 years ago, so cats and people were already living together near stores of grain. **Who acts:** cats · **What happens:** bury, live together · **To what, where:** cat, stores This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:7 # text = A cat was buried next to a person in Cyprus about 9,500 years ago, so cats and people were already living together near stores of grain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 next next ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 9,500 9,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 already already ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 near near ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | past · passive | | a cat | | | | to a person in Cyprus; ago, next *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **live together** | past · progressive | cats and people | | | stores of grain | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near store=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.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): R5-strong ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/6/) - next →: [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/)