How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 13

Cats often bat prey about before killing it, which keeps their face away from its teeth and claws; well-fed cats play longer, and hungry cats get on with the kill.

Who acts: Cats, fed cats, hungry cats · What happens: bat about, kill, keep, play, get on · To what, where: prey, cat, face

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 (Cats, fed cats, hungry 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bat	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 bat	advmod
3	bat	bat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bat	obj
5	about	about	ADV	_	3 bat	compound:prt
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 killing	mark
7	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bat	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bat	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 face	nmod:poss
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	11 keeps	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 teeth	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 teeth	nmod:poss
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 away	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 claws	cc
19	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 teeth	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 fed	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 well	punct
23	fed	fed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cats	amod
24	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 play	nsubj
25	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bat	conj
26	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 play	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cats	amod
30	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 play	conj
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 kill	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 kill	det
35	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bat about	present	Cats	prey	often property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
2	kill	gerund	Cats not said here	cat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	keep	present		backs's face	away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
4	play	present	fed cats		long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get on	present	hungry cats		with the kill	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:13.

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. 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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