--- title: Cats climb up trees easily but find coming down hard, because all th… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats climb up trees easily but find coming down hard, because all their claws point the wrong way for going down head-first. Who acts: Cats, claws, wrong way. A sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/15/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, ene…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/) / 15 # Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 15 Cats climb up trees easily but find coming down hard, because all their claws point the wrong way for going down head-first. **Who acts:** Cats, claws, wrong way · **What happens:** climb up, find, come down, point, go down · **To what, where:** trees, wrong way This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology 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 (Cats, claws, wrong way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:15 # text = Cats climb up trees easily but find coming down hard, because all their claws point the wrong way for going down head-first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 easily easily ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:xcomp 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb up** | present | Cats | trees | | | | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **come down** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | | | down, hard *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **point** | present | dogs's claws | the wrong way | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 5 | **go down** | gerund | the wrong way *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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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