--- title: A real cat would be badly hurt by a small part of what happens to To… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: A real cat would be badly hurt by a small part of what happens to Tom; animators squash and stretch bodies because it looks lively and funny, a rule they learn by drawing a bouncing ball. Who acts: small part, animators, cat. 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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 (small part, animators, cat), 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:12 # text = A real cat would be badly hurt by a small part of what happens to Tom; animators squash and stretch bodies because it looks lively and funny, a rule they learn by drawing a bouncing ball. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 animators animator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 squash squash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 lively lively ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 bouncing bounce VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 38 amod _ _ 38 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | would · passive | a small part | a real cat | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | | 2 | **happen** | present | a small part | | Tom | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **squash** | present | animators | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stretch** | present | animators *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **look** | present | cat | | | | | lively *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **learn** | present | animators *= animator* | a rule *not said here* | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 7 | **draw** | gerund | animators *= animator* *not said here* | a bouncing ball | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 8 | **bounce** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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](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:12`. **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, R7-rel-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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