--- title: Watch a cat with a toy mouse: it crouches low, its pupils go huge an… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a cat with a toy mouse: it crouches low, its pupils go huge and round, its bottom wiggles, and then it shoots forward in one quick pounce. Who acts: you, cat, pupils, bottom. 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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 (you, cat, pupils, bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:0 # text = Watch a cat with a toy mouse: it crouches low, its pupils go huge and round, its bottom wiggles, and then it shoots forward in one quick pounce. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 119-how-real-cats-hunt.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 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 crouches crouch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod:poss 21 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 wiggles wiggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 28 forward forward ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 pounce pounce NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cat | | | | with a toy mouse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 2 | **crouch** | present | cat | | | | | low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | present | cat's pupils | | | | | huge *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wiggle** | | cat's bottom | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shoot** | present | bottom | | | one quick pounce | then | forward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in pounce=Destination | 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:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/18/) - next →: [How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/)