--- title: Cats purr when happy but also when hurt or scared, to calm themselve… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats purr when happy but also when hurt or scared, to calm themselves; the purr is made by muscles in the voice box, and lions cannot purr but can roar. Who acts: Cats, muscles, lions. A sentence of the lesson «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology co --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry, sentence 20 Cats purr when happy but also when hurt or scared, to calm themselves; the purr is made by muscles in the voice box, and lions cannot purr but can roar. **Who acts:** Cats, muscles, lions · **What happens:** purr, hurt, calm, make, not purr, roar · **To what, where:** birds, purr 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 (Cats, muscles, lions), 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:20 # text = Cats purr when happy but also when hurt or scared, to calm themselves; the purr is made by muscles in the voice box, and lions cannot purr but can roar. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 calm calm VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 14 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 purr purr NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 purr purr VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 roar roar VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **purr** | present | Cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hurt** | participle | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **calm** | to-infinitive | Cats *not said here* | birds *= bird* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | muscles in the voice box | the purr | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 5 | **not** **purr** | can | lions | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **roar** | can | lions *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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