--- title: A scared cat flattens its ears, puffs its tail and arches its back;… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics description: A scared cat flattens its ears, puffs its tail and arches its back; it would rather run, but a cornered cat scratches and bites. Who acts: scared cat, cat, cornered cat. 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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 (scared cat, cat, cornered cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:14 # text = A scared cat flattens its ears, puffs its tail and arches its back; it would rather run, but a cornered cat scratches and bites. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flattens flatten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 arches arch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 rather rather ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 cornered corner VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flatten** | present | a scared cat | cat's ears | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **puff** | present | a scared cat *not said here* | cat's tail | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Source | | 3 | **arch** | present | a scared cat *not said here* | cat's back | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | | 4 | **run** | would | cat | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **corner** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **scratch** | present | a cornered cat | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bite** | present | a cornered cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. 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