--- title: Growls, puffed fur and arched backs are warnings that help animals a… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: Growls, puffed fur and arched backs are warnings that help animals avoid a real fight, and animals that live together soon settle into house rules, just as Tom and Spike make a deal. Who acts: Growls, backs, warnings, animals. 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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 (Growls, backs, warnings, animals), 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:5 # text = Growls, puffed fur and arched backs are warnings that help animals avoid a real fight, and animals that live together soon settle into house rules, just as Tom and Spike make a deal. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Growls growl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 arched arch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 xcomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 together together ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 24 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 Spike spike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puff** | participle | Growls | fur | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Source | | 2 | **arch** | past | Growls *not said here* | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | backs | warnings and animals | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | present | warnings and animals | animals | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **avoid** | present | animals *not said here* | a real fight | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location | | 6 | **live together** | present | animals | | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **settle** | infinitive | animals *not said here* | | | house rules | | soon *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **make** | present | Tom and Spike | a deal | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Product | 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:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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): R5-strong ×3, 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. 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