--- title: Chasing a pet or grabbing it for cuddles makes it trust you less; si… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Chasing a pet or grabbing it for cuddles makes it trust you less; sitting still and letting it come to you works better. Who acts: Chasing, person, sitting. 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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 (Chasing, person, sitting), 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:20 # text = Chasing a pet or grabbing it for cuddles makes it trust you less; sitting still and letting it come to you works better. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 5 grabbing grab VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 cuddles cuddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 15 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 18 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | gerund | | a pet | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | | 2 | **grab** | gerund | | person | | | | for cuddles | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for cuddle=Beneficiary | | 3 | **make** | present | Chasing | person | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **trust** | infinitive | person *not said here* | you | | | | less *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **let** | gerund | | person | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | infinitive | person *not said here* | | you | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **work** | present | sitting | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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