--- title: Kneading, pushing the paws in and out on a blanket like making dough… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine live… · tree and pragmatics description: Kneading, pushing the paws in and out on a blanket like making dough, starts with kittens feeding from their mother, and it also leaves scent from glands in the paws. Who acts: blanket, kittens, dough. 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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 (blanket, kittens, dough), 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:8 # text = Kneading, pushing the paws in and out on a blanket like making dough, starts with kittens feeding from their mother, and it also leaves scent from glands in the paws. # 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 1 Kneading knead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 6 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 dough dough NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 28 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **knead** | gerund | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 2 | **push** | gerund | | the paws | | a blanket | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on blanket=Trajectory | | 3 | **make** | gerund | a blanket *not said here* | dough | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dough=Product | | 4 | **start** | present | | | | | | with kittens | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with kitten=Subeventuality | | 5 | **feed** | gerund | kittens *not said here* | | | | | from Cats's mother | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | present | dough | scent | | glands in the paws | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination | 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:8`. **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. **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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