Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 4

Real cats do hunt mice, but by waiting quietly and pouncing, not by long chases round the house, and a well-fed pet cat may hardly bother.

Who acts: Real cats, fed pet cat · What happens: hunt, wait, pounce, feed, bother · To what, where: mice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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, fed pet cat), 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	4 hunt	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 waiting	cc
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 waiting	mark
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hunt	conj
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 waiting	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pouncing	cc
12	pouncing	pounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 waiting	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chases	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 chases	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 chases	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chases	amod
17	chases	chase	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pouncing	obl
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chases	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bother	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bother	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cat	det
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 fed	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 cat	amod
27	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cat	compound
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bother	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bother	aux
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 bother	advmod
31	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hunt	present · do-support	Real cats	mice		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
2	wait	gerund	Real cats not said here		quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pounce	gerund	Real cats not said here		by long chases round the house	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chase=Trajectory
4	feed	participle			well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	bother	may	a fed pet cat		hardly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:4.

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): R8-pos-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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