--- title: Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, frightened or giving bir… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, frightened or giving birth; purring may help them calm down. Who acts: Cats, purring. A sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/11/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/) / 11 # Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 11 Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, frightened or giving birth; purring may help them calm down. **Who acts:** Cats, purring · **What happens:** purr, hurt, frighten, give, help, calm down · **To what, where:** birth, Cats This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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, purring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:11 # text = Cats purr when content, but also when hurt, frightened or giving birth; purring may help them calm down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 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 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 purring purr VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | 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 | **frighten** | participle | Cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **give** | gerund | Cats *not said here* | birth | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | | 5 | **purr** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **help** | may | purring | Cats *= cat* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **calm down** | infinitive | Cats *= cat* *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/10/) - next →: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/)