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title: Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as yo… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done. Who acts: First Friend, you. 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 p
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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 18

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Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done.

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**Who acts:** First Friend, you · **What happens:** not be, catch, do · **To what, where:** little mice

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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 (First Friend, you), 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:18
# text = Even the First Friend is not quick enough to catch little mice as you have done.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	Friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **is** | present | the First Friend |  |  |  |  | enough, quick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the First Friend *not said here* | little mice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:18`.

**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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