--- title: Real cats often catch mice, and people kept cats on farms and ships… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats often catch mice, and people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years for this job; the Tom and Jerry story where the mouse always wins is cartoon fun. Who acts: Real cats, people, mouse, Tom story. 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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, people, mouse, Tom story), 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:8 # text = Real cats often catch mice, and people kept cats on farms and ships for thousands of years for this job; the Tom and Jerry story where the mouse always wins is cartoon fun. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 32 advmod _ _ 32 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **catch** | present | Real cats | mice | | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | past | people | cats | | farms and ships | | for thousands of years; for this job | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on farm=Location | | 3 | **win** | present | the mouse | | | | | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the Tom story | cartoon fun | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): 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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