--- title: Real life: most grown-up cats cannot digest cow's milk well, and it… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: most grown-up cats cannot digest cow's milk well, and it can upset their tummies; water is the best drink for a cat. Who acts: life grown cats, milk, water. 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 c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/) / 35 # Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 35 Real life: most grown-up cats cannot digest cow's milk well, and it can upset their tummies; water is the best drink for a cat. **Who acts:** life grown cats, milk, water · **What happens:** grow up, not digest, upset, be · **To what, where:** milk, tummies, best drink 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 (life grown cats, milk, water), 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:35 # text = Real life: most grown-up cats cannot digest cow's milk well, and it can upset their tummies; water is the best drink for a cat. # 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 ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 well well ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 upset upset VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 tummies tummy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **digest** | can | life grown cats | cow's milk | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **upset** | can | milk | thousands's tummies | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | water | the best drink | | | | for a cat | tree rules | 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. **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:35`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/34/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/)