Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 6
Real cats do hunt mice, and the hunting urge does not switch off when they are full, but many well-fed pet cats hunt only now and then and some never catch a mouse.
Who acts: Real cats, hunting urge, tummies, many fed pet cats, some · What happens: hunt, not switch off, be, feed, not catch · To what, where: mice, mouse
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 (Real cats, hunting urge, tummies, many fed pet cats), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cats | amod |
| 2 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunt | aux |
| 4 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 switch | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 switch | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 urge | det |
| 9 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 urge | compound |
| 10 | urge | urge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 switch | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 switch | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 switch | advmod |
| 13 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hunt | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 switch | compound:prt |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 full | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 switch | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hunt | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 hunt | cc |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cats | amod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 fed | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 24 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cats | amod |
| 25 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cats | compound |
| 26 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hunt | nsubj |
| 27 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunt | conj |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 now | advmod |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 hunt | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 then | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 now | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 catch | cc |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 catch | nsubj |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 catch | advmod |
| 35 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hunt | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mouse | det |
| 37 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 catch | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present · do-support | Real cats | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not switch off | present · do-support | the hunting urge | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | tummies = tummy | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | participle | well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hunt | present | many fed pet cats | now | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not catch | present | some | a mouse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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, 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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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