Understanding cats, sentence 1

A frightened cat puffs its tail up like a bottle brush and arches its back to look bigger; an annoyed cat flicks or thumps its tail and turns its ears back or flat.

Who acts: frightened cat, annoyed cat · What happens: puff up, arch, look, flick, thump, turn · To what, where: tail, back, ears

This is a sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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, annoyed 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	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffs	nsubj
4	puffs	puff	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 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffs	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 puffs	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 brush	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brush	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brush	compound
11	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puffs	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arches	cc
13	arches	arch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 puffs	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arches	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 arches	advcl
18	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 look	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 flicks	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cat	det
21	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cat	amod
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flicks	nsubj
23	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 puffs	parataxis
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 thumps	cc
25	thumps	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 flicks	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thumps	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turns	cc
29	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 flicks	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ears	nmod:poss
31	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 turns	obj
32	back	back	ADV	_	29 turns	advmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 flat	cc
34	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 back	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 puffs	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	puff up	present	a frightened cat	tail's tail	like a bottle brush	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Source
2	arch	present	a frightened cat not said here	tail's back		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient
3	look	to-infinitive	a frightened cat not said here		big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	flick	present	a annoyed cat			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	thump	present	a annoyed cat not said here	tail's tail		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	turn	present	a annoyed cat not said here	tail's ears		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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