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title: Real cats do hunt mice, but many well-fed house cats are lazy hunter… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real cats do hunt mice, but many well-fed house cats are lazy hunters, and some are even scared of rats. Who acts: Real cats, many fed house cats, some. A sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 6

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Real cats do hunt mice, but many well-fed house cats are lazy hunters, and some are even scared of rats.

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**Who acts:** Real cats, many fed house cats, some · **What happens:** hunt, feed, be · **To what, where:** mice, lazy hunters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 cats, many fed house cats, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:6
# text = Real cats do hunt mice, but many well-fed house cats are lazy hunters, and some are even scared of rats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present · do-support | Real cats | mice |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | many fed house cats | lazy hunters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | of rats; scared *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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/).

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