--- title: A frightened cat arches its back, stands sideways and fluffs out its… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: A frightened cat arches its back, stands sideways and fluffs out its fur to look bigger; tiny muscles at the hair roots tighten, as when you get goosebumps. Who acts: frightened cat, tiny muscles, you. 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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 (frightened cat, tiny muscles, you), 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:9 # text = A frightened cat arches its back, stands sideways and fluffs out its fur to look bigger; tiny muscles at the hair roots tighten, as when you get goosebumps. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 arches arch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fluffs fluff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 tighten tighten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 goosebumps goosebump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arch** | present | a frightened cat | hook's back | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | | 2 | **stand** | present | a frightened cat *not said here* | | | | | sideways *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fluff out** | present | a frightened cat *not said here* | hook's fur | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | a frightened cat *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **tighten** | present | tiny muscles at the hair roots | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **get** | present | you | goosebumps | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goosebump=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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