Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 17

Many pet cats bring their catch home, perhaps because home is their safe den, and mother cats bring prey to teach their kittens, so the best thing is to stay calm and clean up, as shouting only scares the cat; a cat called Larry has the title of Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street.

Who acts: Many pet cats, home, mother cats, best thing, cat · What happens: bring, be, teach, clean up, shout, scare · To what, where: catch, safe den, prey, kittens, cat, title · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many pet cats, home, mother cats, best thing), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cats	compound
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	nsubj
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 catch	nmod:poss
6	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 den	punct
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 den	advmod
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 den	mark
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 den	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 den	cop
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 den	nmod:poss
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 den	amod
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cats	compound
19	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	nsubj
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	conj
21	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 teach	mark
23	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bring	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kittens	nmod:poss
25	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 teach	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stay	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	33 stay	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stay	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 stay	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stay	mark
33	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bring	conj
34	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stay	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clean	cc
36	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stay	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 clean	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shouting	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 shouting	mark
40	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 clean	advcl
41	only	only	ADV	_	42 scares	advmod
42	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 shouting	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 cat	det
44	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 scares	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 has	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 cat	det
47	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 has	nsubj
48	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 cat	acl
49	Larry	Larry	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 called	xcomp
50	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	parataxis
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 title	det
52	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 has	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 Mouser	case
54	Chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Mouser	amod
55	Mouser	mouser	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 title	nmod
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 10	case
57	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	55 Mouser	nmod
58	Downing	Downing	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Street	compound
59	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 10	nmod:unmarked
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Many pet cats	animators's catch		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent catch=Theme
2	is a	present	home	animators's safe den		perhaps property	tree rules
3	bring	present	mother cats	prey			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
4	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	mother cats not said here		animators's kittens		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient
5	is	present	the best thing			calm, stay property	tree rules
6	clean up	infinitive	the best thing not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	shout speech: express	gerund	the best thing not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	scare	present	the best thing not said here	the cat			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cat=Experiencer
9	call	participle		a cat not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	have	present	a cat	the title of Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient
11	title			Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street			nom title «communication transitive»: of=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.

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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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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