--- title: Cats are ambush hunters: they wait very still for a long time, creep… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats are ambush hunters: they wait very still for a long time, creep close, and pounce in one short burst, rather than chasing prey wildly around a house. Who acts: Cats, people, long time. 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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 (Cats, people, long time), 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:9 # text = Cats are ambush hunters: they wait very still for a long time, creep close, and pounce in one short burst, rather than chasing prey wildly around a house. # 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 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 ambush ambush ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 pounce pounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 27 cc _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 28 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 around around ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Cats | ambush hunters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | present | people | | | | still; time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **creep** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pounce** | present | people *not said here* | | | one short burst | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burst=Trajectory | | 5 | **chase** | gerund | a long time *not said here* | prey | | a house | | wildly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme around house=Trajectory | 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:9`. **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. **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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