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title: A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare fro… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog, or flat ears, a puffed tail and an arched back on a cat, all say «go away». Who acts: stiff body. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 5

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A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog, or flat ears, a puffed tail and an arched back on a cat, all say «go away».

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**Who acts:** stiff body · **What happens:** raise, curl, puff, arch, say, go away · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (stiff body), 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:5
# text = A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog, or flat ears, a puffed tail and an arched back on a cat, all say «go away».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	puffed	puff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advmod
38	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	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 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **curl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **puff** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a stiff body and raised hair and a growl and a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog or flat ears and a puffed tail and a arched back on a cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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