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description: Real cats usually catch the mouse, milk upsets most grown-up cats' tummies, and a fall from a window can badly hurt them. Who acts: Real cats, milk, fall. 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 
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# Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 8

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Real cats usually catch the mouse, milk upsets most grown-up cats' tummies, and a fall from a window can badly hurt them.

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**Who acts:** Real cats, milk, fall · **What happens:** catch, upset, grow, hurt · **To what, where:** mouse, tummies

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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 (Real cats, milk, fall), 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:8
# text = Real cats usually catch the mouse, milk upsets most grown-up cats' tummies, and a fall from a window can badly hurt them.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound	_	_
14	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	tummies	tummy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **catch** | present | Real cats | the mouse |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **upset** | present | milk | grown cats's tummies |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | a fall from a window | tummies *= tummy* |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |

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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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**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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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