Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 14
A scared cat flattens its ears, puffs its tail and arches its back; it would rather run, but a cornered cat scratches and bites.
Who acts: scared cat, cat, cornered cat · What happens: flatten, puff, arch, run, corner, scratch · To what, where: ears, tail, back
This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (scared cat, cat, cornered 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 | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flattens | nsubj |
| 4 | flattens | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 4 flattens | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 puffs | punct |
| 8 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flattens | conj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puffs | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arches | cc |
| 12 | arches | arch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flattens | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arches | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 run | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 run | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 run | aux |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flattens | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scratches | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 scratches | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cat | det |
| 23 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cat | amod |
| 24 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scratches | nsubj |
| 25 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 run | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bites | cc |
| 27 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 scratches | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flattens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatten | present | a scared cat | cat's ears | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | puff | present | a scared cat not said here | cat's tail | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Source | ||||
| 3 | arch | present | a scared cat not said here | cat's back | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | would | cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | corner | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | scratch | present | a cornered cat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | bite | present | a cornered cat not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: 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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:14.
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, R7-rel-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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