--- title: A cat hissing with its ears flat is frightened and warning you away,… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: A cat hissing with its ears flat is frightened and warning you away, and the right thing is to leave it alone so it can calm down. Who acts: cat, luck. 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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 (cat, luck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:13 # text = A cat hissing with its ears flat is frightened and warning you away, and the right thing is to leave it alone so it can calm down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 hissing hiss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 flat flat ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 warning warn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 alone alone ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hiss** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | | | | | with luck's ears | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ear=Theme | | 2 | **frighten** | present · passive | | a cat | | | | flat *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **warn away** *speech: warn* | gerund | | | you | | | away *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | alone, leave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **calm down** | can | luck | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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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