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title: Cats hide pain well, so not jumping onto high places is often the on… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cats hide pain well, so not jumping onto high places is often the only sign of sore joints; in the wild a cat that showed pain could be attacked. Who acts: Cats, jumping, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 9

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Cats hide pain well, so not jumping onto high places is often the only sign of sore joints; in the wild a cat that showed pain could be attacked.

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**Who acts:** Cats, jumping, cat · **What happens:** hide, not jump, be, show, attack · **To what, where:** pain, high places, only sign, cat, wild

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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 (Cats, jumping, cat), 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:9
# text = Cats hide pain well, so not jumping onto high places is often the only sign of sore joints; in the wild a cat that showed pain could be attacked.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
3	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
9	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Cats | pain |  |  |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **jump** | gerund |  |  |  | high places |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | present | jumping | the only sign |  |  |  | of sore joints; often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | past | a cat | pain |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pain=Recipient |
| 5 | **attack** | could · passive |  | a cat |  | the wild |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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