--- title: A cat that stops eating, or keeps going to the litter box without pa… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: A cat that stops eating, or keeps going to the litter box without passing anything, may be seriously ill and needs a vet quickly. Who acts: cat, litter box. 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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, litter box), 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:15 # text = A cat that stops eating, or keeps going to the litter box without passing anything, may be seriously ill and needs a vet quickly. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 eating eating VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | a cat | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **eating** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | | | the litter box | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to box=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **pass** | gerund | the litter box *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Trajectory | | 6 | **is** | may | a cat | | | | | ill, seriously *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **need** | present | a cat *not said here* | a vet | | | | quickly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme | 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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:15`. **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): no change. **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: [Cats and dogs up close, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/14/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)