--- title: House cats come from the African wildcat; people began living with t… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: House cats come from the African wildcat; people began living with them about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, and a cat was buried with a person on Cyprus about 9,500 years ago. Who acts: House cats, people. 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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 (House cats, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:13 # text = House cats come from the African wildcat; people began living with them about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, and a cat was buried with a person on Cyprus about 9,500 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×4 1 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wildcat wildcat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Middle Middle PROPN NNP _ 21 flat _ _ 21 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 9,500 9,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl:unmarked 36 ago ago ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 37 . . 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 | **come** | present | House cats | | | the African wildcat | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wildcat=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **begin** | past | people | | | the Middle East | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | with people; ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | | 4 | **bury** | past · passive | | a cat | | | | with a person on Cyprus; ago *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×4. **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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