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description: Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well and can get an upset tummy; water is the best drink, and shop cat milk has the milk sugar removed. Who acts: Most adult cats, water, shop cat milk, milk sugar. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jer
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# Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 16

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Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well and can get an upset tummy; water is the best drink, and shop cat milk has the milk sugar removed.

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**Who acts:** Most adult cats, water, shop cat milk, milk sugar · **What happens:** not digest, get, be, have, remove · **To what, where:** milk sugar, upset tummy, best drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 (Most adult cats, water, shop cat milk, milk sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:16
# text = Most adult cats cannot digest milk sugar well and can get an upset tummy; water is the best drink, and shop cat milk has the milk sugar removed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **digest** | can | Most adult cats | milk sugar |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | can | Most adult cats *not said here* | a upset tummy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tummy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | water | the best drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | shop cat milk | the milk sugar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **remove** | participle | the milk sugar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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/).

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