--- title: Connor's cat Sooty avoids him because he plays his drum kit next to… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Connor's cat Sooty avoids him because he plays his drum kit next to her basket; he moves the drums to the garage and a week later she sits on his bed. Who acts: cat, 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 (cat, 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:8 # text = Connor's cat Sooty avoids him because he plays his drum kit next to her basket; he moves the drums to the garage and a week later she sits on his bed. # 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 ×3 1 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Sooty Sooty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 avoids avoid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 next next ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 garage garage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl:unmarked 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **avoid** | present | Connor's cat | Nugget | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location | | 2 | **play** | present | Nugget | Nugget's drum kit | | | | next *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Theme | | 3 | **move** | present | Nugget | the drums | | the garage | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent drum=Theme to garage=Trajectory | | 4 | **sit** | present | cat | | | Nugget's bed | | late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | 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:8`. **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 ×3. **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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