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title: Real house mice build untidy nests inside walls, under floors, in lo… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice? · tree and pragmatics
description: Real house mice build untidy nests inside walls, under floors, in lofts and behind cupboards, out of shredded paper, cloth, insulation and fluff, and can squeeze through a gap about as wide as a pencil. Who acts: Real house mice. A sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mic
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# Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 9

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Real house mice build untidy nests inside walls, under floors, in lofts and behind cupboards, out of shredded paper, cloth, insulation and fluff, and can squeeze through a gap about as wide as a pencil.

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**Who acts:** Real house mice · **What happens:** build, shred, squeeze · **To what, where:** untidy nests, walls, gap

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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 house mice), 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:9
# text = Real house mice build untidy nests inside walls, under floors, in lofts and behind cupboards, out of shredded paper, cloth, insulation and fluff, and can squeeze through a gap about as wide as a pencil.
# 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
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	untidy	untidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lofts	loft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	shredded	shred	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	insulation	insulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fluff	fluff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present | Real house mice | untidy nests |  | walls |  | under floors and lofts and cupboards and shredded paper and cloth and insulation and fluff | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
| 2 | **shred** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **squeeze** | can | Real house mice *not said here* |  |  | a gap |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory |

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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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**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. **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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