--- title: Cats do not suck the breath out of babies; that is an old superstiti… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics description: Cats do not suck the breath out of babies; that is an old superstition (a belief with no real reason behind it), but pets and babies should always be supervised for the safety of both. Who acts: Cats, that. 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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 (Cats, that), 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:9 # text = Cats do not suck the breath out of babies; that is an old superstition (a belief with no real reason behind it), but pets and babies should always be supervised for the safety of both. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 34 advmod _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 supervised supervise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 40 . . 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 | **not** **suck** | present · do-support | Cats | the breath | | babies | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme out baby=Source | | 2 | **is a** | present | that | a old superstition | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **supervise** | should · passive | | pets and babies | | | | for the safety of both; always *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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: [Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/8/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/12-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home/)