--- title: A black cat crossing the road brings no bad luck; in some countries… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: A black cat crossing the road brings no bad luck; in some countries black cats are even thought lucky, and in shelters black cats are sometimes adopted less often because of the myth. Who acts: black cat. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on thei --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 12 A black cat crossing the road brings no bad luck; in some countries black cats are even thought lucky, and in shelters black cats are sometimes adopted less often because of the myth. **Who acts:** black cat · **What happens:** cross, bring, think, adopt · **To what, where:** road, bad luck, black cats, countries, shelters 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 (black cat), 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:12 # text = A black cat crossing the road brings no bad luck; in some countries black cats are even thought lucky, and in shelters black cats are sometimes adopted less often because of the myth. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 9 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 20 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 shelters shelter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 25 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 29 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 30 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | a black cat *not said here* | the road | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 2 | **bring** | present | a black cat | no bad luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | black cats | | some countries | | lucky *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **adopt** | present · passive | | black cats | | shelters | | because the myth; often, sometimes *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…, 13](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/13/) - ↑ 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/)