--- title: Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body:… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/197-cats-purring-whiskers-night-eyes-and-grooming/) / 2 # Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 2 Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stroke, feel · **To what, where:** cat, low rumble, body This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming» 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 (you), 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:2 # text = Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr. # 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 Stroke stroke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 rumble rumble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 purr purr NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroke** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cat | | | | on your lap | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cat=Experiencer on lap=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | present | you | a low rumble | | cat's body | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rumble=Theme through body=Location | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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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