Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 14

Cats judge distance very well and notice moving things much more easily than still ones, so they can land a pounce exactly on a moving toy.

Who acts: Cats, things · What happens: judge, notice, move, land · To what, where: distance, things, pounce, moving toy

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 (Cats, things), 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 judge	nsubj
2	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judge	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 judge	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 notice	cc
7	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 judge	conj
8	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 notice	xcomp
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 moving	obj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 easily	advmod
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 notice	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 ones	case
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 ones	advmod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 easily	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 land	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 land	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 land	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 land	aux
20	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 judge	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pounce	det
22	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 land	obj
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	27 toy	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 toy	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 toy	det
26	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 toy	amod
27	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 land	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 judge	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	judge	present	Cats	distance		well property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value
2	notice	present	Cats not said here			easily property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	move	gerund	Cats not said here	things			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	land	can	things = thing	a pounce	a moving toy		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pounce=Theme on toy=Destination
5	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.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): R5-strong ×4, 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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