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title: Most grown-up cats cannot digest milk well, and it can upset their t… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics
description: Most grown-up cats cannot digest milk well, and it can upset their tummies, so a real cat needs a bowl of water instead. Who acts: Most grown cats, cat, real cat. A sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 5

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Most grown-up cats cannot digest milk well, and it can upset their tummies, so a real cat needs a bowl of water instead.

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**Who acts:** Most grown cats, cat, real cat · **What happens:** grow up, not digest, upset, need · **To what, where:** milk, tummies, bowl

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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 (Most grown cats, cat, real 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:5
# text = Most grown-up cats cannot digest milk well, and it can upset their tummies, so a real cat needs a bowl of water instead.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tummies	tummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **digest** | can | Most grown cats | milk |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **upset** | can | cat | Tom's tummies |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer |
| 4 | **need** | present | a real cat | a bowl of water |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bowl=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:5`.

**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, R8-pos-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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