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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, farmers), 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:4 # text = House cats came from the African wildcat about 10,000 years ago, when farmers welcomed the mouse-catchers into their grain stores, and they still knead, purr, hunt and twist in the air to land on their feet. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|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 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 ago ago ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 welcomed welcome VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 catchers catcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 knead knead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 twist twist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 . . 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** | past | House cats | | | the African wildcat | | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wildcat=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **welcome** | past | farmers | the mouse catchers | | farmers's grain stores | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catcher=Theme | | 3 | **knead** | present | farmers *= farmer* | | | | still | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 4 | **purr** | present | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hunt** | present | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **twist** | present | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 7 | **land** | to-infinitive | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | farmers's feet | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on foot=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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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