--- title: A dog chases what runs because it comes from wolves that hunt by cha… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog chases what runs because it comes from wolves that hunt by chasing, and a cat escapes up a tree because its curved claws hook into bark and a dog's blunt claws cannot. Who acts: dog, Many, wolves, cat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Many, wolves, cat), 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:4 # text = A dog chases what runs because it comes from wolves that hunt by chasing, and a cat escapes up a tree because its curved claws hook into bark and a dog's blunt claws cannot. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 curved curve ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hook hook VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | present | a dog | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | Many | | | wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hunt** | present | wolves | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **chase** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **escape up** | present | a cat | a tree | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **hook** | present | Many's curved claws | | | bark | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bark=Destination | 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](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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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