Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 15
Cats chase a laser dot because it moves like prey, but it can never be caught, which can leave the cat frustrated, so play should end with a real toy the cat can grab.
Who acts: Cats, dot, play, cat · What happens: chase, move, not catch, leave, end, grab · To what, where: laser dot, dot, cat, real 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, dot, play, cat), 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 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dot | det |
| 4 | laser | laser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dot | compound |
| 5 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chase | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 moves | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moves | nsubj |
| 8 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chase | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 prey | case |
| 10 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moves | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 caught | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 caught | aux:pass |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chase | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moves | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cat | det |
| 23 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obj |
| 24 | frustrated | frustrated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leave | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 play | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 end | advmod |
| 27 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 end | aux |
| 29 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moves | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 toy | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 toy | det |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 toy | amod |
| 33 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cat | det |
| 35 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 grab | nsubj |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 grab | aux |
| 37 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 toy | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Cats | a laser dot | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | present | dot | like prey | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not catch | can · passive | dot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | can | the cat | frustrated property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | end | should | play | with a real toy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with toy=Subeventuality | ||||
| 6 | grab | can | the cat | a real toy not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=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:15.
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. 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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