--- title: A cat lying belly up is often relaxed and trusting, but it does not… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: A cat lying belly up is often relaxed and trusting, but it does not always want a tummy rub; touching the tummy can set off a grab-and-kick reaction. Who acts: cat, belly, touching. A sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 7 A cat lying belly up is often relaxed and trusting, but it does not always want a tummy rub; touching the tummy can set off a grab-and-kick reaction. **Who acts:** cat, belly, touching · **What happens:** lie up, be, trust, not want, touch, set off · **To what, where:** belly, tummy rub, tummy, grab 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, belly, touching), 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:7 # text = A cat lying belly up is often relaxed and trusting, but it does not always want a tummy rub; touching the tummy can set off a grab-and-kick reaction. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 relaxed relaxed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 trusting trust VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 17 advmod _ _ 17 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 rub rub NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 29 grab grab NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 reaction reaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie up** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | belly | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belly=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a cat | | | | | often, relaxed *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **trust** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | belly | a tummy rub | | | | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rub=Theme | | 5 | **touch** | gerund | | the tummy | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tummy=Co-Theme | | 6 | **set off** | can | touching | grab and a kick reaction | | | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition grab=Patient | 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:7`. **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, 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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