--- title: Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods,… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter. Who acts: Mice, people. 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 sch --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 9 Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter. **Who acts:** Mice, people · **What happens:** eat, prefer, bait, use · **To what, where:** cheese, grains, traps, peanut butter 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 (Mice, people), 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:9 # text = Mice will eat cheese, but they prefer grains, seeds and sweet foods, so people baiting traps usually use peanut butter. # 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 1 Mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 9 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 foods food NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 baiting bait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 19 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 peanut peanut NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **eat** | future | Mice | cheese | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | | 2 | **prefer** | present | mice *= mouse* | grains and seeds and sweet foods | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | | 3 | **bait** | gerund | people *not said here* | traps | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Destination | | 4 | **use** | present | people | peanut butter | | | | usually *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…, 8](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/) - next →: [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…, 12](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/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](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/)