--- title: Real cats do hunt mice and often play with them first, which is prac… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats do hunt mice and often play with them first, which is practice; real mice cannot outsmart a cat with traps and hammers as Jerry does. Who acts: Real cats, real mice. 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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 (Real cats, real mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:13 # text = Real cats do hunt mice and often play with them first, which is practice; real mice cannot outsmart a cat with traps and hammers as Jerry does. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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): R3-conj-first ×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 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 outsmart outsmart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 hammers hammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **play** | present | Real cats *not said here* | | | | | with mice *= mouse*; first, often *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | practice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **outsmart** | can | real mice | a cat | | | | with traps and hammers | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:13`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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