--- title: She holds a finger out low and waits; the cat sniffs it and rubs its… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: She holds a finger out low and waits; the cat sniffs it and rubs its cheek on her hand, and only then does she stroke it gently. Who acts: girl, cat. 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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 (girl, cat), 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:6 # text = She holds a finger out low and waits; the cat sniffs it and rubs its cheek on her hand, and only then does she stroke it gently. # 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): no change 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 low low ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stroke stroke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 gently gently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | **hold** | present | girl | a finger | | | | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sniff** | present | the cat | finger | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **rub** | present | the cat *not said here* | finger's cheek | | girl's hand | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme on hand=Destination | | 5 | **stroke** | present · do-support | girl | cheek | | | then | gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/5/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)