Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 4

A cat with its tail held straight up is friendly and greeting you, the way kittens greet their mother.

Who acts: cat, way kittens · What happens: hold, be, greet · To what, where: tail, you, mother

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, way kittens), 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	10 friendly	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cat	nmod
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tail	acl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	6 held	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friendly	cop
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 greeting	cc
12	greeting	greet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 friendly	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 greeting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 greet	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kittens	compound
17	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 greet	nsubj
18	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friendly	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 greet	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 friendly	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold	participle		fall's tail not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a cat with fall's tail			friendly property	tree rules
3	greet speech: greet	gerund	a cat with fall's tail not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	greet speech: greet	present	way kittens		Cats's mother		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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:4.

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. 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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