--- title: Each time the Cat listens, says the animal is foolish, walks home by… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Each time the Cat listens, says the animal is foolish, walks home by his wild lone, and tells nobody. Who acts: Cat, animal. 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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 (Cat, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:11 # text = Each time the Cat listens, says the animal is foolish, walks home by his wild lone, and tells nobody. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.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 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 lone lone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | present | the Cat | | | | time | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the animal | | | | | foolish *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | present | the Cat *not said here* | | | | | by Cat's wild lone; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lone=Trajectory | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Cat *not said here* | | nobody | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient | 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:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:11`. **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. 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