--- title: Cats scratch and pets bite when they are hurt or scared; the fix is… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Cats scratch and pets bite when they are hurt or scared; the fix is to change how you touch them, not to punish them. Who acts: Cats, pets, fix, you. 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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 (Cats, pets, fix, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:22 # text = Cats scratch and pets bite when they are hurt or scared; the fix is to change how you touch them, not to punish them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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): no change 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 scratch scratch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | present | pets | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | pets *= pet* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the fix | | | | | change *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **touch** | present | you | pets *= pet* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 6 | **not** **punish** | to-infinitive | the fix *not said here* | pets *= pet* | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:22`. **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): no change. **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. 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