--- title: In every episode of Tom and Jerry a grey cat crashes round a big kit… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: In every episode of Tom and Jerry a grey cat crashes round a big kitchen after a cheeky mouse, gets flattened by an iron, pops back into shape and loses again. Who acts: grey cat, iron. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grey cat, iron), 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:0 # text = In every episode of Tom and Jerry a grey cat crashes round a big kitchen after a cheeky mouse, gets flattened by an iron, pops back into shape and loses again. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 episode episode NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crashes crash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 round round ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 21 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 pops pop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **crash** | present | a grey cat | | | every episode of Tom and Jerry | after a cheeky mouse | round a big kitchen | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in episode=Location | | 2 | **flatten** | present · passive | a iron | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pop back** | present | a iron *not said here* | | | | | into shape *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result | | 4 | **lose** | present | a iron *not said here* | | | | again | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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