--- title: Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain. Who acts: Real farm cats, useful mousers. A sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/) / 13 # Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 13 Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain. **Who acts:** Real farm cats, useful mousers · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** useful mousers, mice This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 farm cats, useful mousers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:13 # text = Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mousers mouser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 barns barn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | Real farm cats | useful mousers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | useful mousers | mice and rats | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | 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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/12/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/)