--- title: Adult cats rarely meow at each other and talk to other cats mostly w… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Adult cats rarely meow at each other and talk to other cats mostly with smells, looks and body; they meow mostly to people, and each cat develops its own meows for its own family. Who acts: Adult cats, pupils, cat. 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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 (Adult cats, pupils, cat), 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:16 # text = Adult cats rarely meow at each other and talk to other cats mostly with smells, looks and body; they meow mostly to people, and each cat develops its own meows for its own family. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 meow meow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 4 obl _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 meow meow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 develops develop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 meows meow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meow** | present | Adult cats | | | | | at each; rarely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at each=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | present | Adult cats *not said here* | | | | | to other cats; with smells and looks and body; mostly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cat=Co-Agent | | 3 | **meow** | present | pupils *= pupil* | | people | | | mostly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | | 4 | **develop** | present | each cat | cat's own meows | | | | for cat's own family | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meow=Product for family=Beneficiary | | 5 | **meow** | | cat | | | | | | nom meow «event intransitive»: poss=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:16`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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