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A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/14/) [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/) / [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / 14 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 14 Cats jump at a cucumber placed silently behind them because something new and snake-like has suddenly appeared, and scaring pets on purpose is unkind. **Who acts:** Cats, something, scaring · **What happens:** jump, place, appear, scare, be · **To what, where:** cucumber, pets, purpose 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 (Cats, something, scaring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:14 # text = Cats jump at a cucumber placed silently behind them because something new and snake-like has suddenly appeared, and scaring pets on purpose is unkind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cucumber cucumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 silently silently ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 scaring scare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 23 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | present | Cats | | | a cucumber | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cucumber=Trajectory | | 2 | **place** | participle | | a cucumber *not said here* | | | | behind mice *= mouse*; silently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind they=Destination | | 3 | **appear** | present · perfect | something | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scare** | gerund | | pets | | purpose | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pet=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | scaring | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | 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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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