--- title: A dog's loose wag often means friendly excitement, but a cat's swish… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog's loose wag often means friendly excitement, but a cat's swishing tail often means it is annoyed or alert; a friendly cat holds its tail straight up with a little hook at the tip. Who acts: loose wag, swishing tail, tail, friendly cat. 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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 (loose wag, swishing tail, tail, friendly cat), 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:8 # text = A dog's loose wag often means friendly excitement, but a cat's swishing tail often means it is annoyed or alert; a friendly cat holds its tail straight up with a little hook at the tip. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 wag wag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 swishing swish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 alert alert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 32 up up ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 37 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **mean** | present | a dog's loose wag | friendly excitement | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excitement=Topic | | 2 | **swish** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | a cat's swishing tail | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | tail | | | | | annoyed *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *speech: other* | | tail *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hold** | present | a friendly cat | tail's tail | | | | with a little hook at the tip; straight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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