--- title: Pet cats that go outside kill many wild birds and small animals, and… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Pet cats that go outside kill many wild birds and small animals, and in Australia cats are a big threat to native animals; a bell on the collar and keeping cats in at night help. Who acts: Pet cats, Australia cats, bell. 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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 (Pet cats, Australia cats, bell), 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:19 # text = Pet cats that go outside kill many wild birds and small animals, and in Australia cats are a big threat to native animals; a bell on the collar and keeping cats in at night help. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pet Pet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 outside outside ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 6 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 33 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 in in PART RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Pet cats | | | | | outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **kill** | present | Pet cats | many wild birds and small animals | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Australia cats | a big threat | | | | to native animals | tree rules | | 4 | **keep in** | gerund | a bell on the collar *not said here* | cats | | | night | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | a bell on the collar | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:19`. **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 ×2, 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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