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description: About four out of five orange cats are male, because orange fur is passed down from parents to kittens in a way that works differently for boys and girls. Who acts: four five orange cats, way. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody
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# Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker, sentence 12

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About four out of five orange cats are male, because orange fur is passed down from parents to kittens in a way that works differently for boys and girls.

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**Who acts:** four five orange cats, way · **What happens:** be, pass down, work · **To what, where:** orange fur, kittens, way

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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 (four five orange cats, way), 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:12
# text = About four out of five orange cats are male, because orange fur is passed down from parents to kittens in a way that works differently for boys and girls.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
6	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | four five orange cats |  |  |  |  | male *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass down** | present · passive |  | orange fur | kittens | a way |  | from parents | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location to kitten=Destination |
| 3 | **work** | present | a way |  |  |  |  | for boys and girls; differently *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for boy=Beneficiary |

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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:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker.lesson:12`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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