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title: A cat scratch or bite that becomes red, hot or swollen should be che… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics
description: A cat scratch or bite that becomes red, hot or swollen should be checked by a doctor. Who acts: cat scratch, doctor. 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 20

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A cat scratch or bite that becomes red, hot or swollen should be checked by a doctor.

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**Who acts:** cat scratch, doctor · **What happens:** become, check · **To what, where:** cat scratch

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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 (cat scratch, doctor), 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:20
# text = A cat scratch or bite that becomes red, hot or swollen should be checked by a doctor.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **become** | present | a cat scratch or bite |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | should · passive | a doctor | a cat scratch or bite |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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**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:20`.

**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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