--- title: In "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat", feeding the cat come… — Olympiad: tricky comprehension · tree and pragmatics description: In "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat", feeding the cat comes first, even though breakfast is mentioned first. Who acts: Mia, feeding. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Olympiad: tricky comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/) / 12 # Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 12 In "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat", feeding the cat comes first, even though breakfast is mentioned first. **Who acts:** Mia, feeding · **What happens:** eat, feed, come, mention · **To what, where:** breakfast, cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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 (Mia, feeding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:12 # text = In "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat", feeding the cat comes first, even though breakfast is mentioned first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 3 Before before ADP IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 mentioned mention VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 25 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | Mia | breakfast | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | | 2 | **feed** *in a quote* | past | Mia | | the cat | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | | | the cat | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | present | feeding | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive | | breakfast | | | | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/11/) - next →: [Olympiad: tricky comprehension, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/60-olympiad-tricky-comprehension/)