--- title: A family in Leeds kept lilies in a vase where their cat could reach;… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Leeds kept lilies in a vase where their cat could reach; the cat chewed a leaf, its kidneys began to fail and it needed days of treatment at the vet. Who acts: family, cat, kidneys. 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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 (family, cat, kidneys), 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:8 # text = A family in Leeds kept lilies in a vase where their cat could reach; the cat chewed a leaf, its kidneys began to fail and it needed days of treatment at the vet. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 chewed chew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 kidneys kidney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **keep** | past | a family in Leeds | lilies | | a vase | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lily=Theme in vase=Location | | 2 | **reach** | could | lilies's cat | | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chew** | past | the cat | a leaf | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **begin** | past | family's kidneys | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **fail** | to-infinitive | family's kidneys *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | past | family | | | the vet | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/7/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)