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title: Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well, because they lose mos… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics
description: Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well, because they lose most of the body chemical that breaks it down after they stop feeding from their mother, so milk can give them diarrhoea; they need water. Who acts: Most adult cats, animators, body chemical, milk. A sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jer
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# Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 13

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Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well, because they lose most of the body chemical that breaks it down after they stop feeding from their mother, so milk can give them diarrhoea; they need water.

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**Who acts:** Most adult cats, animators, body chemical, milk · **What happens:** not digest, lose, break down, stop, feed, give · **To what, where:** milk sugar, most, cat, diarrhoea, animators, water

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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 (Most adult cats, animators, body chemical, milk), 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:13
# text = Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well, because they lose most of the body chemical that breaks it down after they stop feeding from their mother, so milk can give them diarrhoea; they need water.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	diarrhoea	diarrhoea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **digest** | can | Most adult cats | milk sugar |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present | animators *= animator* | most of the body chemical |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |
| 3 | **break down** | present | the body chemical | cat |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | present | animators *= animator* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **feed** | gerund | animators *= animator* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from animators's mother | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | can | milk | diarrhoea | animators *= animator* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient diarrhoea=Theme |
| 7 | **need** | present | animators *= animator* | water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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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