--- title: That is why people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of yea… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years: to catch the mice and rats that ate the grain. Who acts: That, people, mice. 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 with --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 4 That is why people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years: to catch the mice and rats that ate the grain. **Who acts:** That, people, mice · **What happens:** be, keep, catch, eat · **To what, where:** cats, farms, mice, grain 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 (That, people, mice), 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:4 # text = That is why people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years: to catch the mice and rats that ate the grain. # 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): no change 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 6 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | past | people | cats | | farms and ships | | for thousands of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on farm=Location | | 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the mice and rats | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past | the mice and rats | the grain | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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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