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description: Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy. Who acts: Keepers, new smells. A sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment, sentence 12

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Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.

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**Who acts:** Keepers, new smells · **What happens:** spray, give, explore · **To what, where:** perfume, enclosure, something, cats

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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 (Keepers, new smells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:12
# text = Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.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	Keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	spray	spray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	iobj	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **spray** | present | Keepers | perfume or spices |  | a enclosure |  | sometimes *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme in enclosure=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | new smells | something | cats |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient something=Theme |
| 3 | **explore** | to-infinitive | new smells *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | like a new toy | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: 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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**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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.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): 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.

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

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