--- title: Cats scratch and bite when scared or hurt and usually warn first wit… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats scratch and bite when scared or hurt and usually warn first with flattened ears and a swishing tail; a scratch should be washed with soap and water, and a doctor should look if it swells, gets hot or the person feels ill. Who acts: Cats, doctor, person. 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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 (Cats, doctor, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:14 # text = Cats scratch and bite when scared or hurt and usually warn first with flattened ears and a swishing tail; a scratch should be washed with soap and water, and a doctor should look if it swells, gets hot or the person feels ill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 warn warn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 swishing swish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 41 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=40:conj 46 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | infinitive | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | | with flattened ears and a swishing tail; first, usually *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **flatten** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **swish** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wash** | should · passive | | a scratch | | | | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument | | 8 | **look** | should | a doctor | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **swell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | doctor | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 10 | **get** | present | doctor *not said here* | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **feel** | present | the person | | | | | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/13/) - next →: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/)