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title: The Woman makes a bargain: one word in his praise and he may come in… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woman makes a bargain: one word in his praise and he may come into the Cave; two words and he may sit by the fire; three and he may drink the warm white milk three times a day. Who acts: Woman, Cat. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, t
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 6

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The Woman makes a bargain: one word in his praise and he may come into the Cave; two words and he may sit by the fire; three and he may drink the warm white milk three times a day.

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**Who acts:** Woman, Cat · **What happens:** make, come, sit, drink, praise · **To what, where:** bargain, Cave, warm white milk

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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 (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:6
# text = The Woman makes a bargain: one word in his praise and he may come into the Cave; two words and he may sit by the fire; three and he may drink the warm white milk three times a day.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the Woman | a bargain and one word in Cat's praise |  |  |  | two words *obl*; three *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 2 | **come** | may | Cat |  |  | the Cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | may | Cat |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 4 | **drink** | may | Cat | the warm white milk |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 5 | **praise** |  | Cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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