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title: No question but you are very clever, O Cat.» The smoke comes down «p… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: No question but you are very clever, O Cat.» The smoke comes down «puff!» and the Cat is by the fire. Who acts: question, smoke, 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 primary school wit
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 33

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No question but you are very clever, O Cat.» The smoke comes down «puff!» and the Cat is by the fire.

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**Who acts:** question, smoke, Cat · **What happens:** be, come down · **To what, where:** puff

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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 (question, smoke, 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:33
# text = No question but you are very clever, O Cat.» The smoke comes down «puff!» and the Cat is by the fire.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×4
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
18	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no question |  |  |  |  | Cat *vocative*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come down** *in a quote* | present | the smoke | puff |  |  |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location puff=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Cat |  |  |  |  | by the fire | 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:33`.

**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 ×4. **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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