--- title: It usually means a happy cat, but cats also purr when they are hurt… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: It usually means a happy cat, but cats also purr when they are hurt or frightened. Who acts: cat, cats. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming, sentence 3 It usually means a happy cat, but cats also purr when they are hurt or frightened. **Who acts:** cat, cats · **What happens:** mean, purr, hurt, frighten · **To what, where:** happy cat, eyes 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 (cat, cats), 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:3 # text = It usually means a happy cat, but cats also purr when they are hurt or frightened. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 also also ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | cat | a happy cat | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | | 2 | **purr** | present | cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): 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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