Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 16

Cats walk almost silently thanks to soft paw pads and by walking on their toes, and they place their back paws almost exactly where their front paws stepped.

Who acts: Cats, toes, front paws · What happens: walk, place, step · To what, where: thanks, toes, back paws

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, toes, front paws), 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 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 silently	advmod
4	silently	silently	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 pads	case
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pads	amod
8	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pads	compound
9	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thanks	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walking	cc
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 walking	mark
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thanks	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 toes	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 toes	nmod:poss
15	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 place	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 place	nsubj
19	place	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 paws	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 paws	compound
22	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 place	obj
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 exactly	advmod
24	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	29 stepped	advmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 stepped	advmod
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 paws	nmod:poss
27	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 paws	amod
28	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stepped	nsubj
29	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 place	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Cats	thanks to soft paw pads		silently property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	Cats not said here		pads's toes		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
3	place	present	toes = toe	toes's back paws			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme
4	step	past	toes's front paws			exactly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP 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:16.

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): 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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