--- title: When your cat leaves a mouse on the doormat it is not saying thank y… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: When your cat leaves a mouse on the doormat it is not saying thank you or teaching you; it is simply bringing food home, the way its hunting instinct tells it to. Who acts: cat, hunting instinct. 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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 (cat, hunting instinct), 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:5 # text = When your cat leaves a mouse on the doormat it is not saying thank you or teaching you; it is simply bringing food home, the way its hunting instinct tells it to. # 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 ×5 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 doormat doormat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:iobj 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 simply simply ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 31 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | your cat | a mouse | | the doormat | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on doormat=Location | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | cat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **bring** | present · progressive | cat | food home | | | | the way *obl:unmarked*; simply *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | cat's hunting instinct | the way *not said here* | cat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:5`. **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 ×5. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 4](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/) - next →: [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/)