--- title: Cats have only one life; nine lives is a saying, and in some countri… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats have only one life; nine lives is a saying, and in some countries the saying is seven or six lives. Who acts: Cats, nine lives, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/11/) [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/) / [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…](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 # Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 11 Cats have only one life; nine lives is a saying, and in some countries the saying is seven or six lives. **Who acts:** Cats, nine lives, saying · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** one life, saying, seven lives, countries This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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 (Cats, nine lives, saying), 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:11 # text = Cats have only one life; nine lives is a saying, and in some countries the saying is seven or six lives. # 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 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 conj _ _ 23 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Cats | one life | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | nine lives | a saying and seven lives | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the saying | seven lives | | some countries | | | 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:11`. **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. **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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