--- title: In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog chases Tom up trees and guards h… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog chases Tom up trees and guards his puppy Tyke, and it looks as if cats and dogs are born enemies. Who acts: Spike, it. 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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 (Spike, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:0 # text = In Tom and Jerry, Spike the bulldog chases Tom up trees and guards his puppy Tyke, and it looks as if cats and dogs are born enemies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 Spike spike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bulldog bulldog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis 10 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 12 case _ _ 12 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod:poss 16 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 Tyke tyke NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 29 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **chase** | present | Spike | Tom | | Tom and Jerry | | | tree rules | | 2 | **guard** | present | Spike *not said here* | bulldog's puppy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | cats and dogs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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: [How real mice survive: squeezing, clim…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/15/) - next →: [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, ene…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/)