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title: He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.» The Cat asks: «but what is the Baby fond of?» Who acts: Baby, Woman, Cat. 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 prim
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 26

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He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.» The Cat asks: «but what is the Baby fond of?»

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**Who acts:** Baby, Woman, Cat · **What happens:** be, ask · **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 (Baby, Woman, Cat), 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:26
# text = He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.» The Cat asks: «but what is the Baby fond of?»
# 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 ×4, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	»	»	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
31	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **is** | present | Baby |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the Woman |  |  |  |  | of Baby; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | the Baby |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | 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:26`.

**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 ×4, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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