How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 14

A mother cat teaches her kittens by bringing dead prey, then live prey, then hunting with them, and kittens play-fight and pounce on tails from about four weeks old as practice.

Who acts: mother cat, kittens · What happens: teach, bring, hunt, play · To what, where: kittens, dead prey, fight

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 (mother cat, kittens), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	compound
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teaches	nsubj
4	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kittens	nmod:poss
6	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 teaches	obj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 bringing	mark
8	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 teaches	advcl
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prey	amod
10	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bringing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prey	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 prey	advmod
13	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prey	amod
14	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bringing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunting	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 hunting	advmod
17	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bringing	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hunting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 play	cc
22	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 play	nsubj
23	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teaches	conj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
25	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pounce	cc
27	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fight	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 tails	case
29	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pounce	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 weeks	case
31	about	about	ADV	_	32 four	advmod
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 weeks	nummod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tails	nmod
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 weeks	amod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 practice	case
36	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 old	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 teaches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	a mother cat		prey's kittens			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient
2	bring	gerund	a mother cat not said here	dead prey			live prey obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
3	hunt	gerund	a mother cat not said here			then	with Kittens = kitten	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	play	present	kittens	fight and pounce				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=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:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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