Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 7

Cats hunt by waiting, creeping and pouncing, not by long wild chases like Tom's; farm cats can catch many mice in a year.

Who acts: Cats, farm cats, Tom · What happens: hunt, wait, creep, pounce, catch, chase · To what, where: many mice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, farm cats, Tom), 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	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 waiting	mark
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hunt	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creeping	punct
6	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 waiting	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pouncing	cc
8	pouncing	pounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 waiting	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chases	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 chases	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 chases	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chases	amod
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chases	amod
14	chases	chase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waiting	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 Tom	case
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 chases	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Tom	case
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 catch	punct
19	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cats	compound
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 catch	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 catch	aux
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hunt	parataxis
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mice	amod
24	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 catch	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 year	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 catch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hunt	present	Cats			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	Cats not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	gerund	Cats not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pounce	gerund	Cats not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	can	farm cats	many mice	year	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
6	chase		Tom			nom chase «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:7.

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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