--- title: Kittens found alone usually have a mother nearby looking for food, s… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics description: Kittens found alone usually have a mother nearby looking for food, so watch from far away and tell a grown-up rather than picking them up. Who acts: Kittens, mother. 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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 (Kittens, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:22 # text = Kittens found alone usually have a mother nearby looking for food, so watch from far away and tell a grown-up rather than picking them up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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 ×2 1 Kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl _ _ 3 alone alone ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 21 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 24 rather rather ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Kittens *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | Kittens | a mother | | | | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | | 3 | **look** | gerund | a mother *not said here* | | | | | for food; nearby *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | | 4 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | far *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic | | 6 | **pick up** | gerund | | kittens *= kitten* | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:22`. **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 ×2. **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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