--- title: After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to lea… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics description: After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws. Who acts: butter. A sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/14/) [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/) / [Lost pets, microchips, holidays and mo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/) / 14 # Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house, sentence 14 After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws. **Who acts:** butter · **What happens:** move, keep, learn, not help, make · **To what, where:** house, cat, new home, greasy paws This is a sentence of the lesson «Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house» 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 (butter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:14 # text = After moving house a cat is kept inside for a couple of weeks to learn its new home; butter on the paws does not help, it just makes greasy paws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 inside inside ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 greasy greasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | house | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present · passive | | a cat | | | | for a couple of weeks; inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | cat's new home | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | | 4 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | butter on the paws | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | butter | greasy paws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material paw=Product | 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:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:14`. **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): 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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