--- title: A pet cat is a small hunter that lives on your sofa, and almost ever… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: A pet cat is a small hunter that lives on your sofa, and almost everything about its body is built for creeping up on prey in dim light. Who acts: pet cat, small hunter. 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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 (pet cat, small hunter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:0 # text = A pet cat is a small hunter that lives on your sofa, and almost everything about its body is built for creeping up on prey in dim light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a pet cat | a small hunter | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | a small hunter | | | your sofa | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location | | 3 | **build** | present · passive | | everything | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **creep up** | gerund | | | | prey | | in dim light | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prey=Trajectory | 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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