--- title: Cat whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs with many nerve endings th… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Cat whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs with many nerve endings that sense touch and tiny movements of air, and they help a cat judge whether it can fit through a gap. Who acts: Cat whiskers, many nerve endings, 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, many nerve endings, whiskers, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:17 # text = Cat whiskers are thick, deep-rooted hairs with many nerve endings that sense touch and tiny movements of air, and they help a cat judge whether it can fit through a gap. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.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 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 rooted root VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sense sense VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **root** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **sense** | present | many nerve endings | touch and tiny movements of air | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer touch=Stimulus | | 4 | **help** | present | whiskers *= whisker* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **judge** | infinitive | a cat | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fit** | can | cat | | | a gap | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | | 7 | **move** | | | air | | | | | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient | 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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