--- title: A cat usually wins if it really hunts a mouse, but mice escape very… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: A cat usually wins if it really hunts a mouse, but mice escape very often, because they are fast and never go far from a hiding place; big brown rats fight back, and many city cats avoid them. Who acts: cat, mice, animators, big brown rats. 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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 (cat, mice, animators, big brown rats), 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:14 # text = A cat usually wins if it really hunts a mouse, but mice escape very often, because they are fast and never go far from a hiding place; big brown rats fight back, and many city cats avoid them. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 really really ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 escape escape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **win** | present | a cat | | | | | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hunt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | cat | a mouse | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | present | mice | | | | | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | animators *= animator* | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **go** | present | animators *= animator* *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fight back** | present | big brown rats | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **avoid** | present | many city cats | animators *= animator* | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=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. 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