--- title: Cats are hunters by instinct; bringing prey home may be sharing or s… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats are hunters by instinct; bringing prey home may be sharing or showing off, and a bell on the collar can warn birds and mice. Who acts: Cats, bringing, bell. 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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 (Cats, bringing, bell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:11 # text = Cats are hunters by instinct; bringing prey home may be sharing or showing off, and a bell on the collar can warn birds and mice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 7 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 8 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 parataxis _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 25 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Cats | hunters | | | | by instinct | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | gerund | | prey | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 3 | **share** | may · progressive | bringing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show off** | gerund | bringing *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | can | a bell on the collar | | birds and mice | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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