--- title: Real life: cats came to live near people about 10,000 years ago in t… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: cats came to live near people about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, when farmers stored grain; the grain drew mice, and the mice drew wildcats. Who acts: cats, farmers, grain, mice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats, farmers, grain, mice), 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:29 # text = Real life: cats came to live near people about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, when farmers stored grain; the grain drew mice, and the mice drew wildcats. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 dislocated _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 13 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 amod _ _ 17 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stored store VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 25 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 wildcats wildcat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | cats | | | | year | Real life *dislocated* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | cats *not said here* | | | | | near people in the Middle East | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near people=Location | | 3 | **store** | past | farmers | grain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | past | the grain | mice | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 5 | **draw** | past | the mice | wildcats | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildcat=Theme | 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. **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:29`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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. 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