--- title: Cats sometimes make a fast chattering or clicking sound at birds thr… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats sometimes make a fast chattering or clicking sound at birds through a window; nobody knows for sure why, and ideas include frustration, a practice killing bite or copying bird calls. Who acts: Cats, nobody, ideas. 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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 (Cats, nobody, ideas), 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:12 # text = Cats sometimes make a fast chattering or clicking sound at birds through a window; nobody knows for sure why, and ideas include frustration, a practice killing bite or copying bird calls. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 chattering chattering NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 clicking click VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 include include VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 frustration frustration NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 28 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 killing killing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 33 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Cats | a fast chattering | | | | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chattering=Product | | 2 | **click** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | sound | | | | at birds through a window | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **include** | present | ideas | frustration and killing bite | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frustration=Theme | | 5 | **copy** | gerund | ideas *not said here* | bird calls | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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