--- title: When a cat turns its bottom towards your face it is being friendly;… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: When a cat turns its bottom towards your face it is being friendly; cats sniff each other there to say hello, so it is the cat version of a handshake. Who acts: cat, luck, cats. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology cour --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 14 When a cat turns its bottom towards your face it is being friendly; cats sniff each other there to say hello, so it is the cat version of a handshake. **Who acts:** cat, luck, cats · **What happens:** turn, bottom, be, sniff, say · **To what, where:** face, other, cat version · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (cat, luck, cats), 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:14 # text = When a cat turns its bottom towards your face it is being friendly; cats sniff each other there to say hello, so it is the cat version of a handshake. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 towards towards ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sniff sniff VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:acl 22 hello hello INTJ UH _ 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 handshake handshake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | a cat | | | your face | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards face=Trajectory | | 2 | **bottom** | | luck | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present · progressive | | | | | | friendly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sniff** | present | cats | each other | | there | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | present | luck | the cat version | | | | of a handshake | 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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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