--- title: Just before a pounce a cat wiggles its bottom to set its back feet e… — How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing · tree and pragmatics description: Just before a pounce a cat wiggles its bottom to set its back feet evenly and test its grip, which gives the most power in one leap; a cat can jump about five or six times its own height. Who acts: cat, grip. 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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 (cat, grip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:5 # text = Just before a pounce a cat wiggles its bottom to set its back feet evenly and test its grip, which gives the most power in one leap; a cat can jump about five or six times its own height. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 119-how-real-cats-hunt.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pounce pounce NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wiggles wiggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 evenly evenly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 test test VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 grip grip NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 25 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 leap leap NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 34 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 38 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **wiggle** | present | a cat | cat's bottom | | | before a pounce | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | a cat *not said here* | cat's back feet | | | | evenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result | | 3 | **test** | infinitive | a cat *not said here* | cat's grip | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | cat's grip | the most power | | one leap | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | | 5 | **jump about** | can | a cat | cat's own height | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme height=Trajectory | | 6 | **grip** | | cat | | | | | | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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