--- title: A big cat does not chase mice like Tom chases Jerry; a mouse is far… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: A big cat does not chase mice like Tom chases Jerry; a mouse is far too small to be worth the effort for a hunter that needs kilograms of meat a day. Who acts: big cat, Tom, mouse, hunter. 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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 (big cat, Tom, mouse, hunter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:4 # text = A big cat does not chase mice like Tom chases Jerry; a mouse is far too small to be worth the effort for a hunter that needs kilograms of meat a day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** **chase** | present · do-support | a big cat | mice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 2 | **chase** | present | Tom | Jerry | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a mouse | | | | | far, small *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a mouse *not said here* | | | | | for a hunter; worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **need** | present | a hunter | kilograms of meat | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kilogram=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. 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