Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 9

Cats are ambush hunters: they wait very still for a long time, creep close, and pounce in one short burst, rather than chasing prey wildly around a house.

Who acts: Cats, people, long time · What happens: be, wait, creep, pounce, chase · To what, where: ambush hunters, one short burst, prey, house

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, people, long time), 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	4 hunters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunters	cop
3	ambush	ambush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hunters	amod
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 wait	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	nsubj
7	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunters	parataxis
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 still	advmod
9	still	still	ADV	_	7 wait	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 creep	punct
15	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	conj
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 creep	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pounce	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pounce	cc
19	pounce	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 burst	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 burst	nummod
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 burst	amod
23	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pounce	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 chasing	punct
25	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	27 chasing	cc
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 rather	fixed
27	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 time	acl
28	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chasing	obj
29	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	27 chasing	advmod
30	around	around	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chasing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cats	ambush hunters				tree rules
2	wait	present	people			still; time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	present	people not said here				close property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pounce	present	people not said here		one short burst			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burst=Trajectory
5	chase	gerund	a long time not said here	prey	a house		wildly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme around house=Trajectory

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:9.

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. 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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