--- title: Cats blink slowly at people they trust, and slow blinking back can h… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats blink slowly at people they trust, and slow blinking back can help a cat relax. Who acts: Cats, blinking, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/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/) / [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/) / 12 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 12 Cats blink slowly at people they trust, and slow blinking back can help a cat relax. **Who acts:** Cats, blinking, cat · **What happens:** blink, trust, blink back, help, relax · **To what, where:** people, cat This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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, blinking, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:12 # text = Cats blink slowly at people they trust, and slow blinking back can help a cat relax. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): no change 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 slow slow ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 blinking blink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 relax relax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 . . 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 | **blink** | present | Cats | | | | | at people; slowly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location | | 2 | **trust** | present | cats *= cat* | people *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **blink back** | gerund | | | | | | slow *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | can | blinking | a cat | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cat=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **relax** | infinitive | a cat *not said here* | | | | | | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): no change. **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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