--- title: Cats often choose a favourite person, usually the calm one who feeds… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Cats often choose a favourite person, usually the calm one who feeds them and doesn't chase them. Who acts: Cats, calm one. A sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/19/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The cat that only likes Dad, and other…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/) / 19 # The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 19 Cats often choose a favourite person, usually the calm one who feeds them and doesn't chase them. **Who acts:** Cats, calm one · **What happens:** choose, feed, not chase · **To what, where:** favourite person, animals This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Cats, calm one), 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:19 # text = Cats often choose a favourite person, usually the calm one who feeds them and doesn't chase them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **choose** | present | Cats | a favourite person | | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **feed** | present | the calm one | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **chase** | present · do-support | the calm one *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: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 ×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. 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