--- title: Sam's hamster Nugget bites because Sam's hand comes down from above… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's hamster Nugget bites because Sam's hand comes down from above like a hawk; when Mum shows him how to let Nugget walk onto a flat palm from the side, the biting stops. Who acts: hamster Nugget, hand, Mum, Nugget. 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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 (hamster Nugget, hand, Mum, Nugget), 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:7 # text = Sam's hamster Nugget bites because Sam's hand comes down from above like a hawk; when Mum shows him how to let Nugget walk onto a flat palm from the side, the biting stops. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Nugget Nugget PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 above above ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 Nugget Nugget PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 onto onto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 biting biting NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | Sam's hamster Nugget | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come down** | present | Sam's hand | | | | | like a hawk; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | Mum | hand | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | | Nugget | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **walk** | infinitive | Nugget *not said here* | | | a flat palm | | from the side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto palm=Trajectory | | 6 | **stop** | present | the biting | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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. 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