--- title: Slow blinks mean a cat feels safe with you, while wide, round pupils… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: Slow blinks mean a cat feels safe with you, while wide, round pupils in good light can mean it is scared or excited. Who acts: Slow blinks, cat, wide round pupils, light. 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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 (Slow blinks, cat, wide round pupils, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:2 # text = Slow blinks mean a cat feels safe with you, while wide, round pupils in good light can mean it is scared or excited. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 023-understanding-cats.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 Slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 blinks blink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 12 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Slow blinks | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** | present | a cat | | | | | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | can | wide round pupils in good light | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | light | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | light *not said here* | | | | | | 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:everyday:023-understanding-cats.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Understanding cats, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/1/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)