Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 14
A cat usually wins if it really hunts a mouse, but mice escape very often, because they are fast and never go far from a hiding place; big brown rats fight back, and many city cats avoid them.
Who acts: cat, mice, animators, big brown rats, many city cats · What happens: win, hunt, escape, be, not go, fight back · To what, where: mouse, animators
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 (cat, mice, animators, big brown rats), 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 | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wins | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 wins | advmod |
| 4 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 hunts | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hunts | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 hunts | advmod |
| 8 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wins | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunts | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escape | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 escape | cc |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 escape | nsubj |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wins | conj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 often | advmod |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 escape | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fast | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 fast | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fast | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fast | cop |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 escape | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fast | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 28 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 place | compound |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 far | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 fight | punct |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rats | amod |
| 32 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rats | amod |
| 33 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fight | nsubj |
| 34 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wins | parataxis |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 fight | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 avoid | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 avoid | cc |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cats | amod |
| 39 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cats | compound |
| 40 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 avoid | nsubj |
| 41 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fight | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 avoid | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | a cat | usually property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hunt a condition, not said to happen | present | cat | a mouse | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | escape | present | mice | often property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | animators = animator | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not go | present | animators = animator not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fight back | present | big brown rats | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | avoid | present | many city cats | animators = animator | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |
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.
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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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