--- title: It is just what your kitten does with a box or a ball of string, bec… — The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, smal… · tree and pragmatics description: It is just what your kitten does with a box or a ball of string, because play and searching are practice for hunting, only a tiger's ball must be huge and tough. Who acts: lion, kitten, play, ball. 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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 (lion, kitten, play, ball), 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:3 # text = It is just what your kitten does with a box or a ball of string, because play and searching are practice for hunting, only a tiger's ball must be huge and tough. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 searching search NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 26 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33: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 | **is a** | present | lion | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | present | your kitten | | | | | with a box or a ball of string | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | play and searching | practice | | | | for hunting | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | must | a tiger's ball | | | | | huge *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | a tiger's ball *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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