--- title: Many dogs eat grass when they are perfectly healthy, and scientists… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Many dogs eat grass when they are perfectly healthy, and scientists aren't sure why; if a dog seems unwell, ask a vet. Who acts: Many dogs, Cats, scientists, dog. 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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 (Many dogs, Cats, scientists, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:10 # text = Many dogs eat grass when they are perfectly healthy, and scientists aren't sure why; if a dog seems unwell, ask a vet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 22 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | **eat** | present | Many dogs | grass | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Cats *= cat* | | | | | healthy, perfectly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | | | | | unwell *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | a vet | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient | 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-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, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/9/) - next →: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/)