--- title: Maddie's dog Pickles goes stiff around her new stepdad's deep voice… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie's dog Pickles goes stiff around her new stepdad's deep voice and big boots, until three months of morning walks win him over. Who acts: dog. 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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 (dog), 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:9 # text = Maddie's dog Pickles goes stiff around her new stepdad's deep voice and big boots, until three months of morning walks win him over. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 Pickles Pickles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 5 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 stepdad stepdad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 until until ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 over over ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Maddie's dog | | | dog's new stepdad's deep voice and big boots | | stiff *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around voice=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **win over** | present | Maddie's dog *not said here* | Nugget | | | month | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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:9`. **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, 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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