--- title: A puffed-up tail and an arched back mean a cat is frightened. — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: A puffed-up tail and an arched back mean a cat is frightened. Who acts: puffed up tail. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Understanding cats, sentence 9 A puffed-up tail and an arched back mean a cat is frightened. **Who acts:** puffed up tail · **What happens:** puff, arch, mean, frighten · **To what, where:** cat · **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 (puffed up tail), 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:9 # text = A puffed-up tail and an arched back mean a cat is frightened. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 arched arch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **puff** | participle | | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **arch** | participle | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | a puffed up tail and back | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **frighten** | present · passive | | a cat | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/8/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)