--- title: Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt becau… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in. Who acts: Cats, fed pet cats. A sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/16/) [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/) / [How animals hunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/) / 16 # How animals hunt, sentence 16 Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in. **Who acts:** Cats, fed pet cats · **What happens:** be, feed, hunt, chase, pounce, build in · **To what, where:** ambush hunters, urge This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (Cats, 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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:16 # text = Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 052-how-animals-hunt.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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 ambush ambush NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 urge urge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pounce pounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Cats | ambush hunters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hunt** | present | fed pet cats | | | | still | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **chase** | to-infinitive | | the urge *not said here* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pounce** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **build in** | present · passive | | the urge | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/15/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)