--- title: Real mice prefer seeds, grain, nuts and sweet foods such as chocolat… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Real mice prefer seeds, grain, nuts and sweet foods such as chocolate or peanut butter; they will nibble cheese, but it is not their favourite, and pest catchers bait traps with peanut butter. Who acts: Real mice, seeds, mouse, pest catchers. 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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 mice, seeds, mouse, pest catchers), 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:8 # text = Real mice prefer seeds, grain, nuts and sweet foods such as chocolate or peanut butter; they will nibble cheese, but it is not their favourite, and pest catchers bait traps with peanut butter. # 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 ×3 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 peanut peanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 nibble nibble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 favourite favourite NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 catchers catcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 bait bait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 peanut peanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prefer** | present | Real mice | seeds and grain and nuts such chocolate or peanut butter and sweet foods | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus | | 2 | **nibble** | future | seeds *= seed* | cheese | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | mouse | seeds's favourite | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bait** | present | pest catchers | traps | | | | with peanut butter | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent trap=Destination with butter=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:8`. **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 ×3. **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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