Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 13

A cat hissing with its ears flat is frightened and warning you away, and the right thing is to leave it alone so it can calm down.

Who acts: cat, luck · What happens: hiss, frighten, warn away, be, calm down · To what, where: cat, you

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, luck), 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	9 frightened	nsubj
3	hissing	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cat	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hissing	obl
7	flat	flat	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux:pass
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warning	cc
11	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 frightened	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 warning	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 warning	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thing	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frightened	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thing	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	21 leave	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 calm	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 calm	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 calm	aux
27	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 calm	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hiss	gerund	a cat not said here			with luck's ears	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ear=Theme
2	frighten	present · passive		a cat		flat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	warn away speech: warn	gerund			you	away property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	present				alone, leave property	tree rules
5	calm down	can	luck				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:13.

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.

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