--- title: Watch a pet cat with a toy mouse: it creeps low, freezes, wiggles it… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a pet cat with a toy mouse: it creeps low, freezes, wiggles its bottom, then pounces; that wiggle is the cat testing its footing and getting ready to push off hard, exactly like a lion in the long grass. Who acts: you, cat, wiggle. A sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» of the biology cou --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # How animals hunt, sentence 2 Watch a pet cat with a toy mouse: it creeps low, freezes, wiggles its bottom, then pounces; that wiggle is the cat testing its footing and getting ready to push off hard, exactly like a lion in the long grass. **Who acts:** you, cat, wiggle · **What happens:** watch, creep, freeze, wiggle, pounce, be · **To what, where:** pet cat, bottom, cat, footing 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 (you, cat, wiggle), 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:2 # text = Watch a pet cat with a toy mouse: it creeps low, freezes, wiggles its bottom, then pounces; that wiggle is the cat testing its footing and getting ready to push off hard, exactly like a lion in the long grass. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wiggles wiggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 pounces pounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 wiggle wiggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 27 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 28 testing testing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 footing footing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pet cat | | | | with a toy mouse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 2 | **creep** | present | cat | | | | | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **freeze** | present | cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **wiggle** | present | cat *not said here* | cat's bottom | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient | | 5 | **pounce** | present | cat *not said here* | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | that wiggle | the cat | | | | like a lion in the long grass | tree rules | | 7 | **testing** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | cat's footing | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **get** | gerund | the cat *not said here* | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **push off** | to-infinitive | the cat *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/1/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)