--- title: Walking the same line again and again is called pacing; it can mean… — The big cats house: lions and tigers up close · tree and pragmatics description: Walking the same line again and again is called pacing; it can mean a cat is bored, and good zoos change the enclosure and give puzzles to reduce it. Who acts: Walking, it, cat, good zoos. 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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 (Walking, it, cat, good zoos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.lesson:9 # text = Walking the same line again and again is called pacing; it can mean a cat is bored, and good zoos change the enclosure and give puzzles to reduce it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 081-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 5 conj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 pacing pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 enclosure enclosure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 reduce reduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | | the same line | | | again | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Walking | pacing | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **mean** | can | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a cat | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | present | good zoos | the enclosure | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enclosure=Patient | | 6 | **give** | present | good zoos *not said here* | puzzles | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Theme | | 7 | **reduce** | to-infinitive | good zoos *not said here* | cat | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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. 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