--- title: For example, a cat that rolls onto its back is showing it trusts you… — Understanding cats · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a cat that rolls onto its back is showing it trusts you, but rubbing its belly often ends in a scratch, because most cats protect their tummy. Who acts: cat, tail, most cats. A sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/5/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Understanding cats](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/) / 5 # Understanding cats, sentence 5 For example, a cat that rolls onto its back is showing it trusts you, but rubbing its belly often ends in a scratch, because most cats protect their tummy. **Who acts:** cat, tail, most cats · **What happens:** roll, show, trust, rub, end, protect · **To what, where:** back, you, belly, scratch, tummy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Understanding cats» of the everyday 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 (cat, tail, most cats), 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:5 # text = For example, a cat that rolls onto its back is showing it trusts you, but rubbing its belly often ends in a scratch, because most cats protect their tummy. # 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 ×3 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 onto onto ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 trusts trust VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | a cat | | | example's back | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto back=Trajectory | | 2 | **show** | present · progressive | a cat | | | | | for example | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **trust** | present | tail | you | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **rub** | gerund | a cat *not said here* | tail's belly | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent belly=Theme | | 5 | **end** | present | a cat *not said here* | | | a scratch | | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **protect** | present | most cats | Cats's tummy | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tummy=Beneficiary | 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:5`. **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 ×3. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/4/) - next →: [Understanding cats, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/)