--- title: Cats walk almost silently thanks to soft paw pads and by walking on… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats walk almost silently thanks to soft paw pads and by walking on their toes, and they place their back paws almost exactly where their front paws stepped. Who acts: Cats, toes, front paws. 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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, toes, front paws), 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:16 # text = Cats walk almost silently thanks to soft paw pads and by walking on their toes, and they place their back paws almost exactly where their front paws stepped. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 almost almost ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 silently silently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 place place VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **walk** | present | Cats | thanks to soft paw pads | | | | silently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | pads's toes | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory | | 3 | **place** | present | toes *= toe* | toes's back paws | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | | 4 | **step** | past | toes's front paws | | | | | exactly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP 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:16`. **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): 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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