--- title: Most pet cats are ordinary mixed cats, and grey, which is a «diluted… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Most pet cats are ordinary mixed cats, and grey, which is a «diluted» black, is common; almost all tortoiseshell and calico cats are female. Who acts: Most pet cats, grey, tortoiseshell cats. 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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 (Most pet cats, grey, tortoiseshell cats), 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:18 # text = Most pet cats are ordinary mixed cats, and grey, which is a «diluted» black, is common; almost all tortoiseshell and calico cats are female. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 diluted dilute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 » » ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 25 tortoiseshell tortoiseshell NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 calico calico NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Most pet cats | ordinary mixed cats | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | grey | a « | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dilute** *in a quote* | participle | | a « *not said here* | | | | » black | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | grey | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | all tortoiseshell cats | | | | | female *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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