Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 8

Real mice prefer seeds, grain, nuts and sweet foods such as chocolate or peanut butter; they will nibble cheese, but it is not their favourite, and pest catchers bait traps with peanut butter.

Who acts: Real mice, seeds, mouse, pest catchers · What happens: prefer, nibble, not be, bait · To what, where: seeds, cheese, favourite, traps

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 mice, seeds, mouse, pest catchers), 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 mice	amod
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	nsubj
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grain	punct
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeds	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nuts	punct
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeds	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 foods	cc
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foods	amod
11	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeds	conj
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 chocolate	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nuts	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 butter	cc
16	peanut	peanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 butter	compound
17	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chocolate	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 nibble	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 nibble	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 nibble	aux
21	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 prefer	parataxis
22	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nibble	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 favourite	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 favourite	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 favourite	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 favourite	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 favourite	advmod
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 favourite	nmod:poss
29	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nibble	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bait	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bait	cc
32	pest	pest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 catchers	compound
33	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bait	nsubj
34	bait	bait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 favourite	conj
35	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bait	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 butter	case
37	peanut	peanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 butter	compound
38	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bait	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Real mice	seeds and grain and nuts such chocolate or peanut butter and sweet foods		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus
2	nibble	future	seeds = seed	cheese		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient
3	not is a	present	mouse	seeds's favourite		tree rules
4	bait	present	pest catchers	traps	with peanut butter	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent trap=Destination with butter=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:8.

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, R7-rel-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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