--- title: A cat that swishes, lashes or thumps its tail while being stroked is… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: A cat that swishes, lashes or thumps its tail while being stroked is annoyed and may soon scratch or bite, so you stop and let it walk away. Who acts: cat, 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, 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:9 # text = A cat that swishes, lashes or thumps its tail while being stroked is annoyed and may soon scratch or bite, so you stop and let it walk away. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 swishes swish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 lashes lash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 8 thumps thump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 stroked stroke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 27 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swish** | present | a cat | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lash** | present | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **thump** | present | a cat *not said here* | family's tail | | | | | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **stroke** | gerund · passive | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **is** | present | a cat | | | | | annoyed *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **scratch** | may | a cat *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bite** | infinitive | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **stop** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 9 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | family | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **walk away** | infinitive | family *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, 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: [Cats and dogs up close, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/8/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)