--- title: Real cats hunt the other way round: they wait silently, creep closer… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats hunt the other way round: they wait silently, creep closer and strike in one quick jump, and they often do catch mice. Who acts: Real cats, Tom. 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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 (Real cats, Tom), 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:3 # text = Real cats hunt the other way round: they wait silently, creep closer and strike in one quick jump, and they often do catch mice. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 silently silently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 strike strike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **hunt** | present | Real cats | the other way | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | Tom | | | | | silently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **creep** | present | Tom *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **strike** | present | Tom *not said here* | | | one quick jump | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jump=Location | | 5 | **catch** | present · do-support | Tom | mice | | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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