--- title: Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet. Who acts: Tom, cartoon cats, saucers. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/7/) [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/) / [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / 7 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 7 Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet. **Who acts:** Tom, cartoon cats, saucers · **What happens:** not catch, lap, land · **To what, where:** Jerry, saucers, feet This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 (Tom, cartoon cats, saucers), 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:7 # text = Tom never catches Jerry, cartoon cats lap saucers of milk, and they always land on their feet. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lap lap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 saucers saucer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 16 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **catch** | present | Tom | Jerry | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | | 2 | **lap** | present | cartoon cats | saucers of milk | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Patient | | 3 | **land** | present | saucers *= saucer* | | | saucers's feet | | always *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=Destination | 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:7`. **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 ×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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