--- title: Sitting still and watching a mouse hole, like Tom does, is the true… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting still and watching a mouse hole, like Tom does, is the true part of the cartoon; cats can hear the high squeaks of mice that are too high for us to hear. Who acts: Tom, Sitting, cats, mice. 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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 (Tom, Sitting, cats, mice), 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:10 # text = Sitting still and watching a mouse hole, like Tom does, is the true part of the cartoon; cats can hear the high squeaks of mice that are too high for us to hear. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 2 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 4 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 21 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | | a mouse hole | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present | Tom | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | Sitting | the true part | | | | of the cartoon | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | can | cats | the high squeaks of mice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer squeak=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | present | mice | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | us | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **squeak** | | mice | | | | | | nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=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. 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:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/9/) - next →: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/)