--- title: Cats are quieter than dogs, but they talk all the time with their ta… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats are quieter than dogs, but they talk all the time with their tails, ears, eyes and paws, and once you learn the signs you can read a cat's mood across the room. Who acts: Cats, you. 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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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:0 # text = Cats are quieter than dogs, but they talk all the time with their tails, ears, eyes and paws, and once you learn the signs you can read a cat's mood across the room. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.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 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 once once SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 across across ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | Cats | | | | | than dogs; quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | present | Cats *= cat* | | | | time | with Cats's tails and ears and eyes and paws | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tail=Co-Agent | | 3 | **learn** | present | you | the signs | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | | 4 | **read** | can | you | a cat's mood | | the room | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Topic | 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:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:0`. **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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