--- title: Cats knead soft things with their paws, as kittens knead their mothe… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: Cats knead soft things with their paws, as kittens knead their mother for milk, and purr when happy, but sometimes also when hurt or scared. Who acts: Cats, kittens. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/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/) / [Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/) / 12 # Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 12 Cats knead soft things with their paws, as kittens knead their mother for milk, and purr when happy, but sometimes also when hurt or scared. **Who acts:** Cats, kittens · **What happens:** knead, purr, hurt · **To what, where:** soft things, mother This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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, kittens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:12 # text = Cats knead soft things with their paws, as kittens knead their mother for milk, and purr when happy, but sometimes also when hurt or scared. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knead knead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knead knead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 20 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knead** | present | Cats | soft things | | | | with things's paws | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Experiencer with paw=Instrument | | 2 | **knead** | present | kittens | kittens's mother | | | | for milk | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mother=Material | | 3 | **purr** | present | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurt** | participle | Cats *not said here* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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