--- title: The litter box is scooped every day and hands are washed after, beca… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: The litter box is scooped every day and hands are washed after, because cat droppings can carry germs such as toxoplasma; pregnant women should not clean it. Who acts: cat droppings, pregnant women. 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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 droppings, pregnant women), 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:16 # text = The litter box is scooped every day and hands are washed after, because cat droppings can carry germs such as toxoplasma; pregnant women should not clean it. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 scooped scoop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 12 after after ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 19 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 toxoplasma toxoplasma NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scoop** | present · passive | | the litter box | | | day | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | present · passive | | hands | | | | after *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **carry** | can | cat droppings | germs | | | | such toxoplasma | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 4 | **not** **clean** | should | pregnant women | box | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:16`. **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. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/15/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)