--- title: Real cats do hunt mice, and the hunting urge does not switch off whe… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats do hunt mice, and the hunting urge does not switch off when they are full, but many well-fed pet cats hunt only now and then and some never catch a mouse. Who acts: Real cats, hunting urge, tummies, many fed pet 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 (Real cats, hunting urge, tummies, many fed pet 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:6 # text = Real cats do hunt mice, and the hunting urge does not switch off when they are full, but many well-fed pet cats hunt only now and then and some never catch a mouse. # 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 ×2 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 , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 urge urge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **hunt** | present · do-support | Real cats | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 2 | **not** **switch off** | present · do-support | the hunting urge | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | tummies *= tummy* | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hunt** | present | many fed pet cats | | | | now | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **catch** | present | some | a mouse | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×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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