--- title: Watch it with a toy mouse: it crouches, its bottom wiggles, it goes… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch it with a toy mouse: it crouches, its bottom wiggles, it goes perfectly still, then it pounces and lands exactly on target. Who acts: you, cat, bottom. A sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/1/) [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/) / [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/) / 1 # Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 1 Watch it with a toy mouse: it crouches, its bottom wiggles, it goes perfectly still, then it pounces and lands exactly on target. **Who acts:** you, cat, bottom · **What happens:** watch, crouch, wiggle, go, pounce, land · **To what, where:** cat, target This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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 (you, cat, bottom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:1 # text = Watch it with a toy mouse: it crouches, its bottom wiggles, it goes perfectly still, then it pounces and lands exactly on target. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 crouches crouch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wiggles wiggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 17 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pounces pounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | cat | | | | with a toy mouse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **crouch** | present | cat | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wiggle** | present | cat's bottom | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | present | cat | | | | still | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pounce** | present | cat | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **land** | present | cat *not said here* | | | target | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on target=Destination | 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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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