--- title: Cats often chatter their teeth at a bird they cannot reach; scientis… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Cats often chatter their teeth at a bird they cannot reach; scientists think it shows excitement or frustration, though no one is sure. Who acts: Cats, backs, scientists, cat. 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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 (Cats, backs, scientists, cat), 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:12 # text = Cats often chatter their teeth at a bird they cannot reach; scientists think it shows excitement or frustration, though no one is sure. # 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): no change 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 chatter chatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 18 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 frustration frustration NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chatter** | present | Cats | backs's teeth | | | | at a bird; often *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme at bird=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **reach** | can | backs *= back* | a bird *not said here* | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | cat | excitement or frustration | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent excitement=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | no one | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): no change. **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: [How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/11/) - next →: [How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/)