--- title: And watch what the clause is attached to: in «The cat sat on the mat… — Relative clauses · tree and pragmatics description: And watch what the clause is attached to: in «The cat sat on the mat that was black», it is the mat that was black, not the cat. Who acts: you, cat, mat. 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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 (you, cat, mat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:030-relative-clauses.lesson:11 # text = And watch what the clause is attached to: in «The cat sat on the mat that was black», it is the mat that was black, not the cat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 030-relative-clauses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 clause clause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 attached attach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 7 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 2 obl _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **attach** | present · passive | | the clause | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | the cat | | | the mat | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the mat | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | cat | the mat | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | the mat | | | | | the cat *obl*; black *property* | tree rules | 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. 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