Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 5

When your cat leaves a mouse on the doormat it is not saying thank you or teaching you; it is simply bringing food home, the way its hunting instinct tells it to.

Who acts: cat, hunting instinct · What happens: leave, not say, thank, teach, bring, tell · To what, where: mouse, doormat, you, food home, way, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cat, hunting instinct), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 leaves	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 doormat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doormat	det
9	doormat	doormat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saying	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 saying	advmod
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 thank	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 teaching	cc
17	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 thank	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 teaching	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bringing	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bringing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bringing	aux
22	simply	simply	ADV	_	23 bringing	advmod
23	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saying	parataxis
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 home	compound
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bringing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bringing	obl:unmarked
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 instinct	nmod:poss
30	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 instinct	compound
31	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tells	nsubj
32	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tells	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	32 tells	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	your cat	a mouse		the doormat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on doormat=Location
2	not say speech: assert	present · progressive	cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	teach speech: other	gerund			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	bring	present · progressive	cat	food home			the way obl:unmarked; simply property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	present	cat's hunting instinct	the way not said here	cat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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:5.

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 ×5. 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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