Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 10

Sitting still and watching a mouse hole, like Tom does, is the true part of the cartoon; cats can hear the high squeaks of mice that are too high for us to hear.

Who acts: Tom, Sitting, cats, mice, us · What happens: sit, watch, do, be, hear, squeak · To what, where: mouse hole, true part, high squeaks

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 (Tom, Sitting, cats, mice), 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	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 part	csubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Sitting	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watching	cc
4	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hole	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	compound
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watching	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 does	mark
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 does	nsubj
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sitting	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 part	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 part	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 part	det
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 part	amod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 cartoon	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cartoon	det
19	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 part	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
21	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	aux
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 part	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 squeaks	det
25	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 squeaks	amod
26	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 mice	case
28	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 squeaks	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 high	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 high	cop
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 high	advmod
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mice	acl:relcl
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 hear	mark
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 hear	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hear	mark
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 high	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 part	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	gerund		a mouse hole			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	do	present	Tom				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	Sitting	the true part		of the cartoon	tree rules
5	hear	can	cats	the high squeaks of mice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer squeak=Stimulus
6	is	present	mice			high property	tree rules
7	hear	to-infinitive	us				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
8	squeak		mice				nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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