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title: Cat bites often get infected because their teeth are thin and go deep. — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics
description: Cat bites often get infected because their teeth are thin and go deep. Who acts: teeth. A sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Understanding cats, sentence 19

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Cat bites often get infected because their teeth are thin and go deep.

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**Who acts:** teeth · **What happens:** bite, infect, be, go

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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 (teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:19
# text = Cat bites often get infected because their teeth are thin and go deep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 023-understanding-cats.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	infected	infect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **infect** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **is** | present | ears's teeth |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present | ears's teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:19`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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