--- title: Nan drops a jar of jam after a black cat crosses the road, but comin… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: Nan drops a jar of jam after a black cat crosses the road, but coming first is not the same as causing. Who acts: Nan, black cat, coming. A sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/) / 5 # Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 5 Nan drops a jar of jam after a black cat crosses the road, but coming first is not the same as causing. **Who acts:** Nan, black cat, coming · **What happens:** drop, cross, come, not be, cause · **To what, where:** jar, road This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (Nan, black cat, coming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:5 # text = Nan drops a jar of jam after a black cat crosses the road, but coming first is not the same as causing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crosses cross VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | Nan | a jar of jam | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | | 2 | **cross** | present | a black cat | the road | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 3 | **come** | gerund | | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | coming | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **cause** | gerund | coming *not said here* | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/4/) - next →: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/)