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title: Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it. — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it. Who acts: Woman. 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 with its de
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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 2

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Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it.

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**Who acts:** Woman · **What happens:** jump, beg, eat · **To what, where:** footstool, Cat

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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 (Woman), 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:2
# text = Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Chee	Chee	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	6	discourse	_	_
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	footstool	footstool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
11	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **jump** *in a quote* | present | the Woman |  |  | a footstool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto footstool=Trajectory |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | the Woman *not said here* |  | the Cat |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Woman *not said here* | Cat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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