--- title: Duchess sleeps on Dad's chest, purrs on Dad's lap and sits by the do… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Duchess sleeps on Dad's chest, purrs on Dad's lap and sits by the door at six waiting for Dad's key. Who acts: Duchess. 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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 (Duchess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:1 # text = Duchess sleeps on Dad's chest, purrs on Dad's lap and sits by the door at six waiting for Dad's key. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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): no change 1 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 purrs purr VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 20 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | Duchess | | | Dad's chest | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **purr** | present | Duchess *not said here* | | | Dad's lap | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lap=Location | | 3 | **sit** | present | Duchess *not said here* | | | six | | by the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location | | 4 | **wait** | gerund | Duchess *not said here* | | | | | for Dad's key | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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. 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