--- title: Keepers know that a bored cat is an unhappy cat, so they throw in a… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: Keepers know that a bored cat is an unhappy cat, so they throw in a cardboard box stuffed with hay and meat, or spray a little perfume on a log, and the tiger tears and the lion sniffs and rolls. Who acts: Keepers, bored cat, lion. 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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 (Keepers, bored cat, lion), 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:2 # text = Keepers know that a bored cat is an unhappy cat, so they throw in a cardboard box stuffed with hay and meat, or spray a little perfume on a log, and the tiger tears and the lion sniffs and rolls. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 cardboard cardboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 spray spray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 perfume perfume NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj 37 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 rolls roll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Keepers | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | a bored cat | a unhappy cat | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **throw** | present | Keepers *= keeper* | | | a cardboard box | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in box=Destination | | 4 | **stuff** | participle | | a cardboard box *not said here* | | | | with hay and meat | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hay=Theme | | 5 | **spray** | present | Keepers *= keeper* *not said here* | a little perfume | | a log | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme on log=Destination | | 6 | **tear** | present | Keepers *= keeper* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sniff** | present | the lion | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:082-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats.lesson:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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