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title: Cats talk with their ears, tail, eyes and voice: a tail held straigh… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics
description: Cats talk with their ears, tail, eyes and voice: a tail held straight up with a little hook at the tip is a friendly hello. Who acts: Cats, tail. A sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Understanding cats, sentence 0

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Cats talk with their ears, tail, eyes and voice: a tail held straight up with a little hook at the tip is a friendly hello.

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**Who acts:** Cats, tail · **What happens:** talk, hold, be · **To what, where:** tail, friendly hello

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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, tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:0
# text = Cats talk with their ears, tail, eyes and voice: a tail held straight up with a little hook at the tip is a friendly hello.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 023-understanding-cats.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
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **talk** | present | Cats |  |  |  |  | with Cats's ears and tail and eyes and voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ear=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | a tail *not said here* |  |  |  | with a little hook at the tip | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a tail | a friendly hello |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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