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title: Dogs and cats raised together, or introduced slowly, can become real… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs and cats raised together, or introduced slowly, can become real friends; the idea that they always fight is not true. Who acts: Dogs. 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 and the
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# Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 6

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Dogs and cats raised together, or introduced slowly, can become real friends; the idea that they always fight is not true.

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**Who acts:** Dogs · **What happens:** raise, introduce, become, fight, not be · **To what, where:** Dogs, real friends, idea

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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 (Dogs), 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:6
# text = Dogs and cats raised together, or introduced slowly, can become real friends; the idea that they always fight is not true.
# 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): no change
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **raise** | participle |  | Dogs and cats *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | can | Dogs and cats | real friends |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fight** | present | dogs *= dog* | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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