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title: Most grown-up cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well and get tumm… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most grown-up cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well and get tummy upsets; water is the best drink for cats. Who acts: Most grown cats, water. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 10

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Most grown-up cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well and get tummy upsets; water is the best drink for cats.

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**Who acts:** Most grown cats, water · **What happens:** grow, not digest, get, be · **To what, where:** sugar, milk, tummy upsets, best drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» 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 (Most grown cats, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:10
# text = Most grown-up cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well and get tummy upsets; water is the best drink for cats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-animals.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	digest	digest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	upsets	upset	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **digest** | can | Most grown cats | the sugar |  | milk |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | Most grown cats *not said here* | tummy upsets |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer upset=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | water | the best drink |  |  |  | for cats | tree rules |

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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:007-pets-and-farm-animals.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, R8-pos-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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