--- title: Pet cats kill very large numbers of small birds and animals each yea… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: Pet cats kill very large numbers of small birds and animals each year, and a bell on the collar, a bright collar cover or keeping the cat in at dawn and dusk can help protect them. Who acts: Pet cats, bell. 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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 (Pet cats, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:13 # text = Pet cats kill very large numbers of small birds and animals each year, and a bell on the collar, a bright collar cover or keeping the cat in at dawn and dusk can help protect them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.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 ×1 1 Pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 37 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | present | Pet cats | large numbers of small birds and animals | | | year | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover *not said here* | the cat | | | dawn | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 3 | **help** | can | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **protect** | infinitive | a bell on the collar and a bright collar cover *not said here* | bell | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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