--- title: Cats often bat prey about before killing it, which keeps their face… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Cats often bat prey about before killing it, which keeps their face away from its teeth and claws; well-fed cats play longer, and hungry cats get on with the kill. Who acts: Cats, fed cats, hungry 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 (Cats, fed cats, hungry cats), 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:13 # text = Cats often bat prey about before killing it, which keeps their face away from its teeth and claws; well-fed cats play longer, and hungry cats get on with the kill. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 bat bat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 about about ADV RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 killing kill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 fed fed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 26 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 on on ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 kill kill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bat about** | present | Cats | prey | | | | often *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | | 2 | **kill** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | cat | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | | backs's face | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 4 | **play** | present | fed cats | | | | | long *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get on** | present | hungry cats | | | | | with the kill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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