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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 23

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The bargain: one word of praise, into the Cave; two words, by the fire; three words, the warm white milk three times a day «for always and always and always».

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** word · **To what, where:** praise, Cave

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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 (fire), 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:23
# text = The bargain: one word of praise, into the Cave; two words, by the fire; three words, the warm white milk three times a day «for always and always and always».
# 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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **word** |  |  | praise |  | the Cave |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient into=place |
| 2 | **word** |  | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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