--- title: Real cats are carnivores: they need meat, cannot live on pasta like… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics description: Real cats are carnivores: they need meat, cannot live on pasta like Garfield, and cannot even taste sweet things. Who acts: Real cats, cats. 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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 (Real cats, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:4 # text = Real cats are carnivores: they need meat, cannot live on pasta like Garfield, and cannot even taste sweet things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 carnivores carnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Garfield Garfield PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 23 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Real cats | carnivores | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | cats *= cat* | meat | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme | | 3 | **not** **live** | can | cats *= cat* *not said here* | | | pasta like Garfield | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pasta=Location | | 4 | **not** **taste** | can | cats *= cat* *not said here* | sweet things | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute | 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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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): R6-punct-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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