Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 1

Watch it with a toy mouse: it crouches, its bottom wiggles, it goes perfectly still, then it pounces and lands exactly on target.

Who acts: you, cat, bottom · What happens: watch, crouch, wiggle, go, pounce, land · To what, where: cat, target

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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, 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Watch	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	compound
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 crouches	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crouches	nsubj
9	crouches	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wiggles	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bottom	nmod:poss
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wiggles	nsubj
13	wiggles	wiggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crouches	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
17	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 still	advmod
18	still	still	ADV	_	16 goes	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pounces	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 pounces	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pounces	nsubj
22	pounces	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lands	cc
24	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pounces	conj
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	27 target	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 target	case
27	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lands	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	cat			with a toy mouse	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	crouch	present	cat					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wiggle	present	cat's bottom					vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	present	cat			still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pounce	present	cat			then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	land	present	cat not said here		target			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on target=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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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