--- title: The cat on your sofa is a tiny cousin of the leopard: the same soft… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: The cat on your sofa is a tiny cousin of the leopard: the same soft paws, sharp claws, whiskers and night-shining eyes, the same creeping, pouncing hunter inside. Who acts: cat. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/) / 0 # Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 0 The cat on your sofa is a tiny cousin of the leopard: the same soft paws, sharp claws, whiskers and night-shining eyes, the same creeping, pouncing hunter inside. **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** be, shine, creep, pounce · **To what, where:** tiny cousin, creeping hunter This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:0 # text = The cat on your sofa is a tiny cousin of the leopard: the same soft paws, sharp claws, whiskers and night-shining eyes, the same creeping, pouncing hunter inside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 amod _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 pouncing pounce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 34 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 inside inside ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | the cat on your sofa | a tiny cousin | | | | of the leopard | tree rules | | 2 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **creep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pounce** | gerund | the cat on your sofa *not said here* | creeping hunter | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hunter=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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:0`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The tiger: the biggest and strongest c…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/16/) - next →: [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/)