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title: Wild cats moved into the first farming villages about 10,000 years a… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild cats moved into the first farming villages about 10,000 years ago to hunt the mice in the grain stores, and they stayed more independent than dogs: that is the true heart of «the Cat that walked by himself». Who acts: Wild cats, cats, that, Cat. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 20

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Wild cats moved into the first farming villages about 10,000 years ago to hunt the mice in the grain stores, and they stayed more independent than dogs: that is the true heart of «the Cat that walked by himself».

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**Who acts:** Wild cats, cats, that, Cat · **What happens:** move, hunt, stay, be, walk · **To what, where:** first farming villages, mice, grain stores, true heart

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Wild cats, cats, that, Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:20
# text = Wild cats moved into the first farming villages about 10,000 years ago to hunt the mice in the grain stores, and they stayed more independent than dogs: that is the true heart of «the Cat that walked by himself».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	_
43	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **move** | past | Wild cats |  |  | the first farming villages |  | ago *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into village=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Wild cats *not said here* | the mice |  | the grain stores |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme in store=Location |
| 3 | **stay** | past | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | the true heart |  |  |  | of the Cat | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  | by zebra | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |

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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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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): R5-strong ×3. **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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