--- title: Cats hunt by waiting, creeping and pouncing, not by long wild chases… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats hunt by waiting, creeping and pouncing, not by long wild chases like Tom's; farm cats can catch many mice in a year. Who acts: Cats, farm cats, Tom. 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 pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/) / 7 # Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 7 Cats hunt by waiting, creeping and pouncing, not by long wild chases like Tom's; farm cats can catch many mice in a year. **Who acts:** Cats, farm cats, Tom · **What happens:** hunt, wait, creep, pounce, catch, chase · **To what, where:** many mice 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 (Cats, farm cats, Tom), 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:7 # text = Cats hunt by waiting, creeping and pouncing, not by long wild chases like Tom's; farm cats can catch many mice in a year. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 pouncing pounce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chases chase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **creep** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pounce** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | can | farm cats | many mice | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 6 | **chase** | | Tom | | | | | | nom chase «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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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