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title: Supper: wild sheep roasted on hot stones, wild duck stuffed with wil… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Supper: wild sheep roasted on hot stones, wild duck stuffed with wild rice, marrow-bones of wild oxen, wild cherries and grenadillas. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 15

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Supper: wild sheep roasted on hot stones, wild duck stuffed with wild rice, marrow-bones of wild oxen, wild cherries and grenadillas.

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**What happens:** roast, stuff · **To what, where:** wild sheep, wild duck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books 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: 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:15
# text = Supper: wild sheep roasted on hot stones, wild duck stuffed with wild rice, marrow-bones of wild oxen, wild cherries and grenadillas.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
17	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	grenadillas	grenadilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | participle |  | wild sheep and wild duck and marrow bones of wild oxen and wild cherries and grenadillas *not said here* |  |  |  | on hot stones | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stone=Instrument |
| 2 | **stuff** | participle |  | wild duck *not said here* |  |  |  | with wild rice | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rice=Theme |

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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:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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

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