--- title: Cat whiskers are very sensitive, about as wide as the cat's body, so… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics description: Cat whiskers are very sensitive, about as wide as the cat's body, so they tell the cat whether it will fit through a gap, and help it sense prey in the dark. Who acts: Cat whiskers, whiskers, cat. 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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 (Cat whiskers, whiskers, cat), 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:14 # text = Cat whiskers are very sensitive, about as wide as the cat's body, so they tell the cat whether it will fit through a gap, and help it sense prey in the dark. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 sense sense VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Cat whiskers | | | | | sensitive *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | whiskers *= whisker* | | the cat | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **fit** | future | cat | | | a gap | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | cat *not said here* | cat | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **sense** | infinitive | cat *not said here* | prey | | the dark | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus | 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: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): 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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