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title: Real cats are meat-eaters and cannot taste sweet things at all, and… — Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real cats are meat-eaters and cannot taste sweet things at all, and rich human food like lasagne makes them fat and ill; but cats really do sleep a lot, often 12 to 16 hours a day. Who acts: Real cats, rich human food, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, 
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 11

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Real cats are meat-eaters and cannot taste sweet things at all, and rich human food like lasagne makes them fat and ill; but cats really do sleep a lot, often 12 to 16 hours a day.

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**Who acts:** Real cats, rich human food, cats · **What happens:** be, not taste, make, sleep · **To what, where:** meat eaters, sweet things, all, things, lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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, rich human food, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:11
# text = Real cats are meat-eaters and cannot taste sweet things at all, and rich human food like lasagne makes them fat and ill; but cats really do sleep a lot, often 12 to 16 hours a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lasagne	lasagne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc
26	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	really	really	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	often	often	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
37	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	_
40	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Real cats | meat eaters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **taste** | can | Real cats *not said here* | sweet things |  | all |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at all=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | rich human food like lasagne | things *= thing* |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
| 4 | **sleep** | present · do-support | cats | a lot |  |  | hour |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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