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title: The Cat each time: «This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wis… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat each time: «This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am» and «That is a very foolish Dog» (or Horse). Who acts: This, Woman, That. 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 M
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 23

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The Cat each time: «This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am» and «That is a very foolish Dog» (or Horse).

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**Who acts:** This, Woman, That · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** wise Woman, foolish Dog

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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: who acts (This, Woman, That), 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:23
# text = The Cat each time: «This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am» and «That is a very foolish Dog» (or Horse).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
7	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
26	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a wise Woman and a foolish Dog or Horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Woman |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a foolish Dog or Horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:23`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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