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title: The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very beautiful. Who acts: Cat, You. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 21

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The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very beautiful.

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**Who acts:** Cat, You · **What happens:** pretend, be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 (Cat, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:21
# text = The Cat «pretended to be sorry» and said «You are very wise and very beautiful.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pretend** *in a quote* | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:21`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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