--- title: Real cats do hunt mice, and people have kept cats for thousands of y… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats do hunt mice, and people have kept cats for thousands of years partly for that job, but a real hunting cat is silent: it creeps, waits and pounces, because a mouse runs at the first strange sound. Who acts: Real cats, people, real hunting cat, cat. 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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 cats, people, real hunting cat, cat), 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:2 # text = Real cats do hunt mice, and people have kept cats for thousands of years partly for that job, but a real hunting cat is silent: it creeps, waits and pounces, because a mouse runs at the first strange sound. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 11 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 partly partly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 pounces pounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=32:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 because because SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 44 amod _ _ 43 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present · do-support | Real cats | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | people | cats | | | | for thousands of years; for that job | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a real hunting cat | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **creep** | present | cat | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wait** | present | cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pounce** | present | cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **run** | present | a mouse | | | the first strange sound | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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