--- title: Grabbing a cat's tail hurts it, and it may scratch hard. — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: Grabbing a cat's tail hurts it, and it may scratch hard. Who acts: Grabbing, tail. A sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/23/) [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/) / [The cat that only likes Dad, and other…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/) / 23 # The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 23 Grabbing a cat's tail hurts it, and it may scratch hard. **Who acts:** Grabbing, tail · **What happens:** grab, hurt, scratch · **To what, where:** tail This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Grabbing, tail), 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:23 # text = Grabbing a cat's tail hurts it, and it may scratch hard. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Grabbing grab VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 hard hard ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 . . 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** | gerund | | a cat's tail | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | present | Grabbing | tail | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 3 | **scratch** | may | tail | | | | | hard *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:23`. **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. **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: [The cat that only likes Dad, and other…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/22/) - next →: [The cat that only likes Dad, and other…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets/)