--- title: Its whiskers are feelers that tell it whether a gap is wide enough,… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Its whiskers are feelers that tell it whether a gap is wide enough, its eyes shine in headlights because a mirror layer inside them catches every bit of light, and its tongue is a comb. Who acts: whiskers, feelers, gap, eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whiskers, feelers, gap, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:1 # text = Its whiskers are feelers that tell it whether a gap is wide enough, its eyes shine in headlights because a mirror layer inside them catches every bit of light, and its tongue is a comb. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 feelers feeler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 13 enough enough ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 headlights headlight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 inside inside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | hunter's whiskers | feelers and a comb | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | feelers and a comb | | hunter | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | a gap | | | | | enough, wide *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **shine** | present | hunter's eyes | | | headlights | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location | | 5 | **catch** | present | a mirror layer inside eyes | every bit of light | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | hunter's tongue | a comb | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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