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title: The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more. — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more. Who acts: Woman, Cat. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant, sentence 5

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The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more.

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**Who acts:** Woman, Cat · **What happens:** throw, want · **To what, where:** roast bone, Wild Dog, more

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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 (Woman, Cat), 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:5
# text = The Woman throws Wild Dog a roast bone, and he wants more.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	5	flat	_	_
5	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	3	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present | the Woman | a roast bone | Wild Dog |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Destination bone=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | Cat | more |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=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:5`.

**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.

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

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