--- title: Cats judge distance very well and notice moving things much more eas… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats judge distance very well and notice moving things much more easily than still ones, so they can land a pounce exactly on a moving toy. Who acts: Cats, things. 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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, things), 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:14 # text = Cats judge distance very well and notice moving things much more easily than still ones, so they can land a pounce exactly on a moving toy. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 judge judge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj 10 much much ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 12 easily easily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pounce pounce NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **judge** | present | Cats | distance | | | | well *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value | | 2 | **notice** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **move** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | things | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **land** | can | things *= thing* | a pounce | | a moving toy | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pounce=Theme on toy=Destination | | 5 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:14`. **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 ×4, 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. 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