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title: She does not cry or limp, because cats hide pain well, so that missi… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics
description: She does not cry or limp, because cats hide pain well, so that missing jump may be the only sign that her joints hurt. Who acts: dog, cats, missing jump, joints. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 4

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She does not cry or limp, because cats hide pain well, so that missing jump may be the only sign that her joints hurt.

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**Who acts:** dog, cats, missing jump, joints · **What happens:** not cry, limp, hide, be, hurt · **To what, where:** pain, only sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (dog, cats, missing jump, joints), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:4
# text = She does not cry or limp, because cats hide pain well, so that missing jump may be the only sign that her joints hurt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	limp	limp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | present · do-support | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **limp** | infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | present | cats | pain |  |  |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | may | missing jump | the only sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | present | dog's joints | the only sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Patient |

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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.

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**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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