--- title: A small pet like a hamster may be frightened by a hand coming down f… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics description: A small pet like a hamster may be frightened by a hand coming down from above, as a hawk would; let it walk onto your flat hand from the side. Who acts: hand, hawk. 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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 (hand, hawk), 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:24 # text = A small pet like a hamster may be frightened by a hand coming down from above, as a hawk would; let it walk onto your flat hand from the side. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 13 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 above above ADV RB _ 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 23 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 onto onto ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | may · passive | a hand | a small pet like a hamster | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **come down** | gerund | a hand *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | hawk | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | infinitive | hawk *not said here* | | | your flat hand | | from the side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto hand=Trajectory | 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:24`. **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 ×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. 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