--- title: Cartoons show Jerry the mouse stealing cheese, but real mice prefer… — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show Jerry the mouse stealing cheese, but real mice prefer seeds, grain and sweet things, and every small pet needs daily care, not just a cage in a corner. Who acts: Cartoons, mouse, real mice, small pet. 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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 (Cartoons, mouse, real mice, small pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:3 # text = Cartoons show Jerry the mouse stealing cheese, but real mice prefer seeds, grain and sweet things, and every small pet needs daily care, not just a cage in a corner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.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 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 stealing stealing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **show** | present | Cartoons | the mouse | Jerry | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Recipient mouse=Topic | | 2 | **stealing** | gerund | the mouse *not said here* | cheese | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **prefer** | present | real mice | seeds and grain and sweet things | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus | | 4 | **need** | present | every small pet | daily care | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme | 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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:3`. **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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