--- title: Think of Tom chasing Jerry: real cats do hunt mice, but a real mouse… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics description: Think of Tom chasing Jerry: real cats do hunt mice, but a real mouse would rather nibble seeds than a wedge of holey cheese. Who acts: you, Tom, real cats, real mouse. 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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 (you, Tom, real cats, real mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:2 # text = Think of Tom chasing Jerry: real cats do hunt mice, but a real mouse would rather nibble seeds than a wedge of holey cheese. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 5 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 11 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 rather rather ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 nibble nibble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 20 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wedge wedge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 holey holey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of Tom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **chase** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | Jerry | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | present · do-support | real cats | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 4 | **nibble** | would | a real mouse | seeds | | | | than a wedge of holey cheese | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | 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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:2`. **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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