--- title: Real life: a cat was buried beside a person on the island of Cyprus… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: a cat was buried beside a person on the island of Cyprus about 9,500 years ago; the ancient Egyptians loved cats and even made statues of a cat-goddess. Who acts: ancient Egyptians. 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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 (ancient Egyptians), 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:31 # text = Real life: a cat was buried beside a person on the island of Cyprus about 9,500 years ago; the ancient Egyptians loved cats and even made statues of a cat-goddess. # 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 ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 8 beside beside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Cyprus Cyprus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 9,500 9,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Egyptians Egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 goddess goddess NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | past · passive | | a cat | | the island of Cyprus | | beside a person; ago *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside person=Destination | | 2 | **love** | past | the ancient Egyptians | cats | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | past | the ancient Egyptians *not said here* | statues of a cat goddess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statue=Product | 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:31`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/30/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/)