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title: In "The dog chased the cat into the garden" there are three nouns: d… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics
description: In "The dog chased the cat into the garden" there are three nouns: dog, cat and garden. Who acts: dog, three nouns. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 5

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In "The dog chased the cat into the garden" there are three nouns: dog, cat and garden.

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**Who acts:** dog, three nouns · **What happens:** chase, be · **To what, where:** cat, garden

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (dog, three nouns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:5
# text = In "The dog chased the cat into the garden" there are three nouns: dog, cat and garden.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** *in a quote* | past | the dog | the cat |  | the garden |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme into garden=Trajectory |
| 2 | **does** | present | three nouns and garden |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:5`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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