Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 3

Real cats hunt the other way round: they wait silently, creep closer and strike in one quick jump, and they often do catch mice.

Who acts: Real cats, Tom · What happens: hunt, wait, creep, strike, catch · To what, where: other way, one quick jump, mice

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 (Real cats, Tom), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cats	amod
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obj
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
10	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	parataxis
11	silently	silently	ADV	_	10 wait	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 creep	punct
13	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	conj
14	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 creep	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strike	cc
16	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 jump	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 jump	nummod
19	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jump	amod
20	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strike	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 catch	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 catch	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 catch	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	26 catch	advmod
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 catch	aux
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wait	parataxis
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 catch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Real cats	the other way			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	wait	present	Tom			silently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	present	Tom not said here			close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	strike	present	Tom not said here		one quick jump		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jump=Location
5	catch	present · do-support	Tom	mice		often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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