--- title: Cats bury their droppings to hide their smell from bigger animals an… — Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their drop… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats bury their droppings to hide their smell from bigger animals and rivals, and a cat that stops burying may be stressed or unwell. Who acts: Cats, cat. 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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 (Cats, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:20 # text = Cats bury their droppings to hide their smell from bigger animals and rivals, and a cat that stops burying may be stressed or unwell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.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): no change 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 burying bury VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | Cats | Cats's droppings | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | Cats's smell | | | | from bigger animals and rivals | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent smell=Patient from animal=Beneficiary | | 3 | **stop** | present | a cat | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **bury** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stress** | may · passive | | a cat | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 6 | **smell** | | Cats *= cat* | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:398-poo-wee-and-smells-rabbits-that-eat-their-droppings-dung-beetles-and-the-smelliest-animals.lesson:20`. **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): no change. **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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