--- title: In medieval Europe some people linked black cats with witches, but i… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: In medieval Europe some people linked black cats with witches, but in Britain and Japan black cats can mean good luck; it is only superstition. Who acts: people, black cats, cat. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/17/) [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/) / [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / 17 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 17 In medieval Europe some people linked black cats with witches, but in Britain and Japan black cats can mean good luck; it is only superstition. **Who acts:** people, black cats, cat · **What happens:** link, mean, be · **To what, where:** black cats, medieval Europe, good luck, superstition This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 (people, black cats, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:17 # text = In medieval Europe some people linked black cats with witches, but in Britain and Japan black cats can mean good luck; it is only superstition. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 linked link VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **link** | past | some people | black cats | | medieval Europe | | with witches | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cat=Patient with witch=Co-Patient | | 2 | **mean** | can | black cats | good luck | | | | in Britain and Japan | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot luck=Theme in britain=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | present | cat | superstition | | | | | tree rules | 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:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry.lesson:17`. **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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