--- title: Let a cat come to you, stroke it gently on its cheeks, chin and the… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: Let a cat come to you, stroke it gently on its cheeks, chin and the base of its ears, and stop as soon as its tail starts to twitch, its skin ripples or its ears turn back. Who acts: you, cat, tail, skin ripples. 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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 (you, cat, tail, skin ripples), 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:4 # text = Let a cat come to you, stroke it gently on its cheeks, chin and the base of its ears, and stop as soon as its tail starts to twitch, its skin ripples or its ears turn back. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stroke stroke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 gently gently ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 twitch twitch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod:poss 35 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 ripples ripple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 40 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | a cat *not said here* | | you | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **stroke** | infinitive | you *not said here* | light | | light's cheeks and chin and the base of light's ears | | gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **start** | present | light's tail | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **twitch** | to-infinitive | light's tail *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **turn back** | present | skin ripples or light's ears | | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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