--- title: Cats spend a large part of their waking time grooming, and their ton… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Cats spend a large part of their waking time grooming, and their tongues are covered in tiny backward-pointing hooks that work like a comb. Who acts: Cats, tiny pointing hooks. 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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 (Cats, tiny pointing hooks), 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:11 # text = Cats spend a large part of their waking time grooming, and their tongues are covered in tiny backward-pointing hooks that work like 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 waking waking NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 grooming groom VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 17 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 19 backward backward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | Cats | a large part of pupils's waking time | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset | | 2 | **groom** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cover** | present · passive | | pupils's tongues | | | | in tiny pointing hooks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hook=Theme | | 4 | **point** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **work** | present | tiny pointing hooks | | | | | like a comb | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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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