--- title: Many cities and kind people look after street animals: feeding them… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics description: Many cities and kind people look after street animals: feeding them at fixed places, vaccinating them and having a vet stop them having more babies, so fewer homeless kittens and puppies are born. Who acts: Many cities, vet. 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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 (Many cities, vet), 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:8 # text = Many cities and kind people look after street animals: feeding them at fixed places, vaccinating them and having a vet stop them having more babies, so fewer homeless kittens and puppies are born. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 11 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 vaccinating vaccinate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 31 homeless homeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **look** | present | Many cities and kind people | | | | after street animals | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **feed** | gerund | Many cities and kind people *not said here* | cities *= city* | | fixed places | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **vaccinate** | gerund | Many cities and kind people *not said here* | cities *= city* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | gerund | Many cities and kind people *not said here* | a vet | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | infinitive | a vet *not said here* | cities *= city* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | gerund | a vet *not said here* | more babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 8 | **bear** | present · passive | | fewer homeless kittens and puppies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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: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): 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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