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title: In the poem, a child likes his dog Binkie better than the Pussy, bec… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the poem, a child likes his dog Binkie better than the Pussy, because Binkie is his true First Friend. Who acts: child, Binkie. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» of the boo
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 13

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In the poem, a child likes his dog Binkie better than the Pussy, because Binkie is his true First Friend.

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**Who acts:** child, Binkie · **What happens:** like, be · **To what, where:** dog, poem, true First Friend

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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 (child, Binkie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:13
# text = In the poem, a child likes his dog Binkie better than the Pussy, because Binkie is his true First Friend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Binkie	Binkie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Pussy	pussy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	Binkie	Binkie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | a child | child's dog |  | the poem |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Binkie | Dog's true First Friend |  |  |  |  | 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:13`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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