--- title: Real cats do hunt mice, but by waiting quietly and pouncing, not by… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats do hunt mice, but by waiting quietly and pouncing, not by long chases round the house, and a well-fed pet cat may hardly bother. Who acts: Real cats, fed pet cat. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/) / 4 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 4 Real cats do hunt mice, but by waiting quietly and pouncing, not by long chases round the house, and a well-fed pet cat may hardly bother. **Who acts:** Real cats, fed pet cat · **What happens:** hunt, wait, pounce, feed, bother · **To what, where:** mice This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. 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, fed pet cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:4 # text = Real cats do hunt mice, but by waiting quietly and pouncing, not by long chases round the house, and a well-fed pet cat may hardly bother. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 10 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pouncing pounce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 chases chase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 bother bother VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present · do-support | Real cats | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | Real cats *not said here* | | | | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pounce** | gerund | Real cats *not said here* | | | | | by long chases round the house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chase=Trajectory | | 4 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bother** | may | a fed pet cat | | | | | hardly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:4`. **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): 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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