--- title: Ears turned back or flattened mean a cat is scared or angry. — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: Ears turned back or flattened mean a cat is scared or angry. Who acts: Ears, cat. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/11/) [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/) / 11 # Understanding cats, sentence 11 Ears turned back or flattened mean a cat is scared or angry. **Who acts:** Ears, cat · **What happens:** turn back, flatten, mean, be · **To what, where:** Ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ears, 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:11 # text = Ears turned back or flattened mean a cat is scared or angry. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 5 flattened flatten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn back** | participle | | Ears *not said here* | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **flatten** | participle | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | Ears | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a cat | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/10/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)