How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing, sentence 5

Just before a pounce a cat wiggles its bottom to set its back feet evenly and test its grip, which gives the most power in one leap; a cat can jump about five or six times its own height.

Who acts: cat, grip · What happens: wiggle, set, test, give, jump about, grip · To what, where: bottom, back feet, grip, most power, one leap, own height

This is a sentence of the lesson «How real cats hunt: stalking, waiting and pouncing» of the biology 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 (cat, grip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	7 wiggles	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 pounce	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pounce	det
4	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiggles	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiggles	nsubj
7	wiggles	wiggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bottom	nmod:poss
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiggles	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wiggles	advcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feet	compound
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obj
15	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	11 set	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 test	cc
17	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 set	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grip	nmod:poss
19	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 test	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gives	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gives	nsubj
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grip	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 power	det
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 leap	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 leap	nummod
28	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 jump	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cat	det
31	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 jump	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 jump	aux
33	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wiggles	parataxis
34	about	about	ADV	_	35 five	advmod
35	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 times	nummod
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 six	cc
37	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 five	conj
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 jump	obl:unmarked
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 height	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 height	amod
41	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 jump	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wiggles	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wiggle	present	a cat	cat's bottom		before a pounce		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient
2	set	to-infinitive	a cat not said here	cat's back feet			evenly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result
3	test	infinitive	a cat not said here	cat's grip				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme
4	give	present	cat's grip	the most power	one leap			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
5	jump about	can	a cat	cat's own height		time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme height=Trajectory
6	grip		cat					nom grip «act 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, 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:biology:119-how-real-cats-hunt.lesson:5.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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