Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 10

A house mouse weighs about 20 grams and an adult cat about 4 kilograms, about 200 times more; mice run on all four legs and only stand up to look or sniff.

Who acts: house mouse, mice · What happens: weigh, run, stand up, look, sniff · To what, where: 20 grams, four legs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» 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 (house mouse, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	compound
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weighs	nsubj
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 run	parataxis
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 20	advmod
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 grams	nummod
7	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weighs	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cat	cc
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
10	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cat	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grams	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 4	advmod
13	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 kilograms	nummod
14	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cat	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 times	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 200	advmod
17	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kilograms	conj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 times	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 run	punct
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 run	nsubj
22	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 legs	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 legs	det
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 legs	nummod
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 run	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stand	cc
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 stand	advmod
29	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 run	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 stand	compound:prt
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stand	advcl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 sniff	cc
34	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 look	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	weigh	present	a house mouse	20 grams and a adult cat 4 kilograms and 200 times		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value
2	run	present	mice		all four legs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
3	stand up	present	mice not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	mice not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	sniff	infinitive	mice not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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, 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:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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