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title: Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should drink fresh water, not cow's milk. Who acts: Most adult cats, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cats and dogs up close, sentence 12

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Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should drink fresh water, not cow's milk.

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**Who acts:** Most adult cats, cats · **What happens:** not digest, drink · **To what, where:** sugar, milk, fresh water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most adult cats, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:12
# text = Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should drink fresh water, not cow's milk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **digest** | can | Most adult cats | the sugar |  | milk |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | should | cats | fresh water |  |  |  | cow's milk *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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.

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**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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:12`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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