Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 9
A frightened cat arches its back, stands sideways and fluffs out its fur to look bigger; tiny muscles at the hair roots tighten, as when you get goosebumps.
Who acts: frightened cat, tiny muscles, you · What happens: arch, stand, fluff out, look, tighten, get · To what, where: back, fur, goosebumps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (frightened cat, tiny muscles, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arches | nsubj |
| 4 | arches | arch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tighten | conj |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arches | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stands | punct |
| 8 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 arches | conj |
| 9 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 8 stands | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fluffs | cc |
| 11 | fluffs | fluff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 arches | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 fluffs | compound:prt |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fur | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fluffs | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fluffs | advcl |
| 17 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 look | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 tighten | punct |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 muscles | amod |
| 20 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tighten | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 roots | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roots | det |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roots | compound |
| 24 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 muscles | nmod |
| 25 | tighten | tighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 get | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 get | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tighten | advcl |
| 31 | goosebumps | goosebump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 get | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arch | present | a frightened cat | hook's back | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | a frightened cat not said here | sideways property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fluff out | present | a frightened cat not said here | hook's fur | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | a frightened cat not said here | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tighten | present | tiny muscles at the hair roots | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | get | present | you | goosebumps | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goosebump=Stimulus |
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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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