--- title: A real animal hit with a frying pan or squashed flat would be badly… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: A real animal hit with a frying pan or squashed flat would be badly hurt; bodies cannot be flattened and pop back into shape the way cartoon animators draw them. Who acts: cartoon animators. 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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 (cartoon animators), 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:11 # text = A real animal hit with a frying pan or squashed flat would be badly hurt; bodies cannot be flattened and pop back into shape the way cartoon animators draw them. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 4 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 11 flat flat ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 17 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pop pop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:compound 29 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 animators animator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | participle | | a real animal *not said here* | | | | with a frying pan | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with pan=Instrument | | 2 | **squash** | participle | | | | | | flat *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hurt** | would · passive | | a real animal | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **not** **flatten** | can · passive | | bodies | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **pop back** | infinitive | | the way | | | | into shape *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into shape=Result | | 6 | **draw** | present | cartoon animators | bodies *= body* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:11`. **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 ×3, 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: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/10/) - next →: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/12/) - ↑ 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/)