Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 1

A cat that trots in with its tail straight up like a flagpole is saying a happy hello; the same cat swishing its tail hard from side to side is saying «enough, I'm cross».

Who acts: cat, same cat · What happens: trot, say, swish, be · To what, where: happy hello, tail, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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, same cat), 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	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 trots	nsubj
4	trots	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cat	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 trots	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 tail	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trots	obl
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 up	advmod
10	up	up	ADV	_	4 trots	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 flagpole	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flagpole	det
13	flagpole	flagpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trots	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	aux
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 saying	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hello	det
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hello	amod
18	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cat	amod
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saying	nsubj
23	swishing	swish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 cat	acl
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tail	nmod:poss
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swishing	obj
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 swishing	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 side	case
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swishing	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 side	case
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swishing	obl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 saying	aux
32	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 enough	punct
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 saying	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cross	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 cross	nsubj
37	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 cross	cop
38	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saying	ccomp
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 cross	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trot	present	a cat			with room's tail; like a flagpole	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	a cat	a happy hello			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	swish	gerund	the same cat not said here	room's tail	side	to side; hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present · progressive	the same cat			enough property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the same cat = cat			cross property	tree rules

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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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