--- title: After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its neck, which looks funny but stops it licking open its stitches. Who acts: cat, neck, vet. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/3/) [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/) / [The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/) / 3 # The vet, sentence 3 After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its neck, which looks funny but stops it licking open its stitches. **Who acts:** cat, neck, vet · **What happens:** come, wear, look, stop, lick · **To what, where:** big cone, stitches This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 (cat, neck, vet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:3 # text = After an operation a cat may come home wearing a big cone round its neck, which looks funny but stops it licking open its stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 9 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 round round ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 licking lick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 24 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | may | a cat | | | | after a operation | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wear** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | a big cone vet's neck | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cone=Source | | 3 | **look** | present | vet's neck | | | | | funny *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **stop** | present | vet's neck *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **lick** | gerund | vet | vet's stitches | | | | open *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stitch=Source | 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:227-the-vet.lesson:3`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The vet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/2/) - next →: [The vet, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)