--- title: Real hunting cats are almost silent: soft paw pads and claws pulled… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Real hunting cats are almost silent: soft paw pads and claws pulled back inside the paws let them walk without clicking, unlike a dog. Who acts: Real hunting cats, soft paw pads, animators. 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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 (Real hunting cats, soft paw pads, animators), 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:16 # text = Real hunting cats are almost silent: soft paw pads and claws pulled back inside the paws let them walk without clicking, unlike a dog. # 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): no change 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 almost almost ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 inside inside ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 without without SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 clicking click VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 unlike unlike ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Real hunting cats | | | | | almost, silent *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull back** | participle | | soft paw pads and claws *not said here* | | the paws | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | present | soft paw pads and claws | animators *= animator* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | infinitive | animators *= animator* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **click** | gerund | animators *= animator* *not said here* | | | | | unlike a dog | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:16`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/14/) - next →: [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/)