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title: The Woman: «O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that you… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woman: «O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog.» The Cat: «What is that to me?» Who acts: you, Cat, your. 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 c
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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 21

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The Woman: «O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog.» The Cat: «What is that to me?»

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**Who acts:** you, Cat, your · **What happens:** be, remember, not make, bargain · **To what, where:** bargain, Cat, Woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Cat, your), 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:21
# text = The Woman: «O Cat, you are as clever as a man, but remember that your bargain was not made with the Man or the Dog.» The Cat: «What is that to me?»
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
36	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	acl	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
41	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=disagree

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | as a man; Cat *vocative*; clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | your bargain |  |  |  | with the Man or the Dog; the Cat *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Cat | the Cat *not said here* | the Woman *= woman* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bargain** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:21`.

**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): no change. **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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