--- title: Real cats hunt mice by waiting quietly and pouncing, and many well-f… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats hunt mice by waiting quietly and pouncing, and many well-fed pet cats are not very interested in hunting. Who acts: Real cats, many fed pet cats. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 8 Real cats hunt mice by waiting quietly and pouncing, and many well-fed pet cats are not very interested in hunting. **Who acts:** Real cats, many fed pet cats · **What happens:** hunt, wait, pounce, feed, not be · **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, many fed pet cats), 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:8 # text = Real cats hunt mice by waiting quietly and pouncing, and many well-fed pet cats are not very interested in hunting. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pouncing pounce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 13 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 22 in in SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | 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* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | many fed pet cats | | | | | interested *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hunt** | gerund | many fed pet cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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