Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 8

Real cats hunt mice by waiting quietly and pouncing, and many well-fed pet cats are not very interested in hunting.

Who acts: Real cats, many fed pet cats · What happens: hunt, wait, pounce, feed, not be · 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, many fed pet cats), 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	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 waiting	mark
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hunt	advcl
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 waiting	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pouncing	cc
9	pouncing	pounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waiting	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 interested	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 interested	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cats	amod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 fed	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cats	amod
16	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cats	compound
17	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 interested	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 interested	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 interested	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 interested	advmod
21	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunt	conj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 hunting	mark
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 interested	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 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	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			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	participle			well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	many fed pet cats		interested property	tree rules
6	hunt	gerund	many fed pet cats not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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 ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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