--- title: In "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen" there are three nouns: ca… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics description: In "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen" there are three nouns: cat, mat and kitchen; "the" is a pointer word, "sat" is the doing word, and "on" and "in" show where. Who acts: cat, three nouns, the, word sat. 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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, three nouns, the, word sat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:1 # text = In "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen" there are three nouns: cat, mat and kitchen; "the" is a pointer word, "sat" is the doing word, and "on" and "in" show where. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 nouns noun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:det 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 pointer pointer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 sat sat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 in in NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 49 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 48 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | the cat | | | the mat | | in the kitchen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location | | 2 | **does** | present | three nouns | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the | a pointer word | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | word sat | | | the doing word | | on in show | tree rules | 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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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/). - ← previous: [Nouns: the names of things, people, pl…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/0/) - next →: [Nouns: the names of things, people, pl…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/)