--- title: Most adult cats cannot digest (break down in the tummy) cow's milk w… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Most adult cats cannot digest (break down in the tummy) cow's milk well and it can upset their tummies, so water is the best drink for a cat, despite the cartoon saucer of milk. Who acts: Most adult cats, milk, water. 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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 (Most adult cats, milk, water), 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:10 # text = Most adult cats cannot digest (break down in the tummy) cow's milk well and it can upset their tummies, so water is the best drink for a cat, despite the cartoon saucer of milk. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 14 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 upset upset VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 tummies tummy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 despite despite ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 saucer saucer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **digest** | can | Most adult cats | cow's milk | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break down** | infinitive | | | | the tummy | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **upset** | can | milk | Cats's tummies | | | | despite the cartoon saucer of milk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tummy=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | water | the best drink | | | | for a cat | tree rules | 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:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/9/) - next →: [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/)