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title: Real life: many cats and dogs who grow up together are good friends;… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: many cats and dogs who grow up together are good friends; dogs do not always chase cats, and cats are not cruel or false, just more independent. Who acts: many cats, Real life, dogs, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, t
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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 32

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Real life: many cats and dogs who grow up together are good friends; dogs do not always chase cats, and cats are not cruel or false, just more independent.

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**Who acts:** many cats, Real life, dogs, cats · **What happens:** grow up, be, not chase, not be · **To what, where:** good friends

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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 (many cats, Real life, dogs, cats), 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:32
# text = Real life: many cats and dogs who grow up together are good friends; dogs do not always chase cats, and cats are not cruel or false, just more independent.
# 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:aux
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
20	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **grow up** | present | many cats and dogs |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Real life | good friends and chase cats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **chase** | present · do-support | dogs |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | cats |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:32`.

**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 ×5, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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