--- title: Many cats bring prey home and leave it on the doormat or floor; the… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Many cats bring prey home and leave it on the doormat or floor; the cat is carrying food back to a safe place, not thanking or rewarding you. Who acts: Many cats, cat. 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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 (Many cats, 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:6 # text = Many cats bring prey home and leave it on the doormat or floor; the cat is carrying food back to a safe place, not thanking or rewarding you. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 doormat doormat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 thanking thank VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 rewarding reward VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | Many cats | prey | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | present | Many cats *not said here* | prey | | the doormat or floor | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on doormat=Location | | 3 | **carry** | present · progressive | the cat | food | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | the cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reward** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | | you | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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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