--- title: A boy in New York grabbed a cat and held it tight while it struggled… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in New York grabbed a cat and held it tight while it struggled; it scratched his face deeply, and the scratch got infected. Who acts: boy, tail, scratch. 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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 (boy, tail, scratch), 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:6 # text = A boy in New York grabbed a cat and held it tight while it struggled; it scratched his face deeply, and the scratch got infected. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 tight tight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 struggled struggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:xcomp 28 . . 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 | **grab** | past | a boy in New York | a cat | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | past | a boy in New York *not said here* | tail | | | | tight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **struggle** | past | tail | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **scratch** | past | tail | boy's face | | | | deeply *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | the scratch | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/5/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)