--- title: Cats chase a laser dot because it moves like prey, but it can never… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats chase a laser dot because it moves like prey, but it can never be caught, which can leave the cat frustrated, so play should end with a real toy the cat can grab. Who acts: Cats, dot, play, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 15 Cats chase a laser dot because it moves like prey, but it can never be caught, which can leave the cat frustrated, so play should end with a real toy the cat can grab. **Who acts:** Cats, dot, play, cat · **What happens:** chase, move, not catch, leave, end, grab · **To what, where:** laser dot, dot, cat, real toy 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 (Cats, dot, play, cat), 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:15 # text = Cats chase a laser dot because it moves like prey, but it can never be caught, which can leave the cat frustrated, so play should end with a real toy the cat can grab. # 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 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 laser laser NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 frustrated frustrated ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **chase** | present | Cats | a laser dot | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme | | 2 | **move** | present | dot | | | | | like prey | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **catch** | can · passive | | dot | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | can | | the cat | | | | frustrated *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 5 | **end** | should | play | | | | | with a real toy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with toy=Subeventuality | | 6 | **grab** | can | the cat | a real toy *not said here* | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=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:15`. **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. **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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