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title: Animals living together settle into rules about who sleeps where and… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals living together settle into rules about who sleeps where and who eats first, so real fights become rare. Who acts: Animals, real fights. A sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 17

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Animals living together settle into rules about who sleeps where and who eats first, so real fights become rare.

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**Who acts:** Animals, real fights · **What happens:** live together, settle, sleep, eat, become · **To what, where:** rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (Animals, real fights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:17
# text = Animals living together settle into rules about who sleeps where and who eats first, so real fights become rare.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	settle	settle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
20	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live together** | gerund | Animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | present | Animals |  |  | rules |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** | present | real fights |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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