--- title: Cats sometimes bring dead mice or birds as «presents»; an adult shou… — The pet that loves you most · tree and pragmatics description: Cats sometimes bring dead mice or birds as «presents»; an adult should remove them with gloves or a bag, and the cat should not be punished. Who acts: Cats, adult. 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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 (Cats, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:33 # text = Cats sometimes bring dead mice or birds as «presents»; an adult should remove them with gloves or a bag, and the cat should not be punished. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | Cats | | dead mice or birds | | | as presents; sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination | | 2 | **remove** | should | a adult | Pets *= pet* | | | | with gloves or a bag | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **not** **punish** | should · passive | | the cat | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:33`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The pet that loves you most, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/32/) - next →: [The pet that loves you most, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/)