--- title: Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; a cat uses the… — Cats: purring, whiskers, night eyes and grooming · tree and pragmatics description: Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; a cat uses them to judge whether it fits through a gap, and they must never be cut. Who acts: Whiskers, 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 (Whiskers, 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:7 # text = Whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs full of nerves; a cat uses them to judge whether it fits through a gap, and they must never be cut. # 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 Whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 rooted root VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **is** | present | Whiskers | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **root** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **use** | present | a cat | whiskers *= whisker* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **judge** | to-infinitive | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **fit** | present | cat | | | a gap | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | | 6 | **not** **cut** | must · passive | | whiskers *= whisker* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:7`. **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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