--- title: Many pet cats bring their catch home, perhaps because home is their… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Many pet cats bring their catch home, perhaps because home is their safe den, and mother cats bring prey to teach their kittens, so the best thing is to stay calm and clean up, as shouting only scares the cat; a cat called Larry has the title of Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street. 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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 (Many pet cats, home, mother cats, best thing), 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:17 # text = Many pet cats bring their catch home, perhaps because home is their safe den, and mother cats bring prey to teach their kittens, so the best thing is to stay calm and clean up, as shouting only scares the cat; a cat called Larry has the title of Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 34 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 41 only only ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 scares scare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:obj 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 acl _ _ 49 Larry Larry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 xcomp _ _ 50 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 Chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 Mouser mouser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=52:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 56 at at ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 55 nmod _ _ 58 Downing Downing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 Street Street PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod:unmarked _ _ 60 . . 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 | **bring** | present | Many pet cats | animators's catch | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent catch=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | home | animators's safe den | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | present | mother cats | prey | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | mother cats *not said here* | | animators's kittens | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | the best thing | | | | | calm, stay *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **clean up** | infinitive | the best thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the best thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **scare** | present | the best thing *not said here* | the cat | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cat=Experiencer | | 9 | **call** | participle | | a cat *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **have** | present | a cat | the title of Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient | | 11 | **title** | | | Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street | | | | | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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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