--- title: A cat that rubs against your legs is leaving its scent on you, a fri… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: A cat that rubs against your legs is leaving its scent on you, a friendly way of saying you belong to it. Who acts: cat, friendly way, you, family. 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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 (cat, friendly way, you, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:10 # text = A cat that rubs against your legs is leaving its scent on you, a friendly way of saying you belong to it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | present | a cat | | | your legs | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against leg=Destination | | 2 | **leave** | present · progressive | a cat | family's scent | | | | on you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scent=Theme on you=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a friendly way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **belong** | present | you | | family | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **scent** | | family | | | | | | nom scent «cognition transitive»: poss=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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/9/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)