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title: Some old ideas were never true at all, like cats sucking the breath… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Some old ideas were never true at all, like cats sucking the breath out of babies, but the worry behind them can still lead to a sensible rule: keep pets and babies supervised. Who acts: old ideas, cats, worry, sensible rule. A sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the my
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# Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 5

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Some old ideas were never true at all, like cats sucking the breath out of babies, but the worry behind them can still lead to a sensible rule: keep pets and babies supervised.

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**Who acts:** old ideas, cats, worry, sensible rule, pets · **What happens:** not be, suck, lead, keep, supervise · **To what, where:** all, breath, babies, pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (old ideas, cats, worry, sensible rule), 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:5
# text = Some old ideas were never true at all, like cats sucking the breath out of babies, but the worry behind them can still lead to a sensible rule: keep pets and babies supervised.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
36	supervised	supervise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | some old ideas |  |  | all |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suck** | gerund | cats | the breath |  | babies |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme out baby=Source |
| 3 | **lead** | can | the worry behind Cats |  |  |  | still | to a sensible rule | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to rule=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | a sensible rule *not said here* | pets and babies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **supervise** | participle | pets and babies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |

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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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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): 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/).

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