--- title: Hunters such as dogs and cats chase what runs and pounce on what mov… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics description: Hunters such as dogs and cats chase what runs and pounce on what moves, so a running child or a fluttering hand can switch on the chase, while a still, quiet person switches it off. Who acts: Hunters, quiet person. 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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 (Hunters, quiet person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:1 # text = Hunters such as dogs and cats chase what runs and pounce on what moves, so a running child or a fluttering hand can switch on the chase, while a still, quiet person switches it off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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 Hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 7 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pounce pounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 14 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 fluttering flutter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 switches switch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | present | Hunters such dogs and cats | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **run** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pounce** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **flutter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **switch** | can | Hunters such dogs and cats *not said here* | | | the chase | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **switch off** | present | a quiet person | chase | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.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): 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: [Thinking like an animal, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/0/) - next →: [Thinking like an animal, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/)