--- title: Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, ill or scared, perhaps t… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, ill or scared, perhaps to calm themselves; a mother cat purrs while feeding, which seems to keep the kittens close and calm, and kittens can purr when only a few days old. Who acts: Cats, mother cat, kittens. 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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, mother cat, kittens), 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:6 # text = Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, ill or scared, perhaps to calm themselves; a mother cat purrs while feeding, which seems to keep the kittens close and calm, and kittens can purr when only a few days old. # 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 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 4 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 purrs purr VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 feeding feeding VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 purr purr VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 41 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 42 only only ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 advcl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, hedge=1, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **purr** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **calm** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | muscles *= muscle* | | | | perhaps *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | | 3 | **purr** | present | a mother cat | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feeding** | gerund | a mother cat *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | present | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | the kittens | | | | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme | | 7 | **purr** | can | kittens | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:6`. **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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