--- title: When your well-fed pet cat drops a mouse on the kitchen floor, it is… — Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and d… · tree and pragmatics description: When your well-fed pet cat drops a mouse on the kitchen floor, it is not hungry and not giving you a present on purpose: the urge to stalk and pounce is built into every cat. Who acts: fed pet cat, cat. 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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 (fed pet cat, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.lesson:1 # text = When your well-fed pet cat drops a mouse on the kitchen floor, it is not hungry and not giving you a present on purpose: the urge to stalk and pounce is built into every cat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 urge urge NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 stalk stalk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 pounce pounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drop** | present | your fed pet cat | a mouse | | the kitchen floor | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on floor=Destination | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | cat | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **give** | gerund | cat *not said here* | a present | you | purpose | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient present=Theme on purpose=Asset | | 5 | **stalk** | to-infinitive | | the urge *not said here* | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pounce** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **build** | present · passive | | the urge | | | | into every cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into cat=Product | 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:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.lesson:1`. **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, 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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