--- title: A girl in Glasgow ignored her cat's flicking tail and flattened ears… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Glasgow ignored her cat's flicking tail and flattened ears and kept rubbing its tummy; it bit her hand, and her hand swelled up and she needed antibiotics. Who acts: girl, cat, tail, hand. A sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/7/) [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/) / 7 # Understanding cats, sentence 7 A girl in Glasgow ignored her cat's flicking tail and flattened ears and kept rubbing its tummy; it bit her hand, and her hand swelled up and she needed antibiotics. **Who acts:** girl, cat, tail, hand · **What happens:** ignore, flick, flatten, keep, rub, bite · **To what, where:** tail, ears, tummy, hand, antibiotics 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 (girl, cat, tail, hand), 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:7 # text = A girl in Glasgow ignored her cat's flicking tail and flattened ears and kept rubbing its tummy; it bit her hand, and her hand swelled up and she needed antibiotics. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ignored ignore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 flicking flick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 flattened flatten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 rubbing rub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 swelled swell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | past | a girl in Glasgow | girl's cat's tail | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 2 | **flick** | gerund | girl's cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **flatten** | past | a girl in Glasgow *not said here* | ears | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | past | a girl in Glasgow *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rub** | gerund | a girl in Glasgow *not said here* | tail's tummy | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tummy=Theme | | 6 | **bite** | past | tail | girl's hand | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 7 | **swell up** | past | girl's hand | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **need** | past | hand | antibiotics | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antibiotic=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. 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