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title: A real mouse is tiny, about 20 grams, as heavy as four sugar cubes,… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics
description: A real mouse is tiny, about 20 grams, as heavy as four sugar cubes, runs on four legs, lives in an untidy nest of fluff inside the wall, and would choose peanut butter or chocolate over a holey wedge of cheese. Who acts: real mouse. A sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase 
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# Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 3

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A real mouse is tiny, about 20 grams, as heavy as four sugar cubes, runs on four legs, lives in an untidy nest of fluff inside the wall, and would choose peanut butter or chocolate over a holey wedge of cheese.

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**Who acts:** real mouse · **What happens:** be, run, live, choose · **To what, where:** four legs, untidy nest, peanut butter, holey wedge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real mouse), 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:3
# text = A real mouse is tiny, about 20 grams, as heavy as four sugar cubes, runs on four legs, lives in an untidy nest of fluff inside the wall, and would choose peanut butter or chocolate over a holey wedge of cheese.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	untidy	untidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fluff	fluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
37	peanut	peanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	holey	holey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	wedge	wedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a real mouse |  |  |  |  | 20 grams *obl:unmarked*; tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a real mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as four sugar cubes | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | present | a real mouse *not said here* |  |  | four legs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 4 | **live** | present | a real mouse *not said here* |  |  | a untidy nest of fluff inside the wall |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
| 5 | **choose** | would | a real mouse *not said here* | peanut butter or chocolate |  | a holey wedge of cheese |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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