Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 7
A cat may bring in a live mouse and let it go, patting and chasing it; this looks cruel, but the cat is acting on instinct and does not understand cruelty.
Who acts: cat, mouse, this · What happens: bring, let, go, pat, chase, look · To what, where: live mouse, mouse, instinct, cruelty
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, mouse, this), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mouse | det |
| 7 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mouse | amod |
| 8 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 patting | punct |
| 14 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 go | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chasing | cc |
| 16 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 patting | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chasing | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 looks | punct |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 looks | nsubj |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looks | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 acting | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 acting | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 acting | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 acting | aux |
| 27 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 looks | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 instinct | case |
| 29 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 acting | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 understand | cc |
| 31 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 understand | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 understand | advmod |
| 33 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 acting | conj |
| 34 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 understand | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | may | a cat | a live mouse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | a cat not said here | mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | mouse not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pat | gerund | mouse not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | chase | gerund | mouse not said here | mouse | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | present | this | cruel property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | act | present · progressive | the cat | instinct | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on instinct=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | not understand | present · do-support | the cat not said here | cruelty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cruelty=Stimulus |
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:7.
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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