--- title: A frightened cat puffs its tail up like a bottle brush and arches it… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: A frightened cat puffs its tail up like a bottle brush and arches its back to look bigger; an annoyed cat flicks or thumps its tail and turns its ears back or flat. Who acts: frightened cat, annoyed cat. A sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Understanding cats](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/) / 1 # Understanding cats, sentence 1 A frightened cat puffs its tail up like a bottle brush and arches its back to look bigger; an annoyed cat flicks or thumps its tail and turns its ears back or flat. **Who acts:** frightened cat, annoyed cat · **What happens:** puff up, arch, look, flick, thump, turn · **To what, where:** tail, back, ears 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 (frightened cat, annoyed cat), 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:1 # text = A frightened cat puffs its tail up like a bottle brush and arches its back to look bigger; an annoyed cat flicks or thumps its tail and turns its ears back or flat. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 puffs puff 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 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 arches arch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 thumps thump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puff up** | present | a frightened cat | tail's tail | | | | like a bottle brush | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Source | | 2 | **arch** | present | a frightened cat *not said here* | tail's back | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | a frightened cat *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **flick** | present | a annoyed cat | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **thump** | present | a annoyed cat *not said here* | tail's tail | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | present | a annoyed cat *not said here* | tail's ears | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | 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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Understanding cats, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/0/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)