How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 0

Watch a cat with a toy mouse: it crouches low, its pupils go huge and round, its bottom wiggles, and then it shoots forward in one quick pounce.

Who acts: you, cat, pupils, bottom · What happens: watch, crouch, go, wiggle, shoot · To what, where: cat, one quick pounce

This is a sentence of the lesson «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» 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 (you, cat, pupils, bottom), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouse	compound
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 crouches	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crouches	nsubj
10	crouches	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
11	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 crouches	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pupils	nmod:poss
14	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crouches	conj
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 round	cc
18	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 huge	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wiggles	punct
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bottom	nmod:poss
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wiggles	nsubj
22	wiggles	wiggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shoots	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shoots	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 shoots	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shoots	nsubj
27	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	advcl
28	forward	forward	ADV	_	27 shoots	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 pounce	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pounce	nummod
31	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pounce	amod
32	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoots	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a cat			with a toy mouse	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	crouch	present	cat				low property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	cat's pupils				huge property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wiggle		cat's bottom					tree rules
5	shoot	present	bottom		one quick pounce	then	forward property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in pounce=Destination

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:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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