--- title: Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics description: Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck or magic with no evidence); in some places, such as parts of Britain and Japan, they are even thought to bring good luck. Who acts: Black cats. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/12/) [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/) / [Sleepovers and spooky stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/) / 12 # Sleepovers and spooky stories, sentence 12 Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck or magic with no evidence); in some places, such as parts of Britain and Japan, they are even thought to bring good luck. **Who acts:** Black cats · **What happens:** bring, be, think · **To what, where:** bad luck, superstition, cats, places, good luck This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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 (Black cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:12 # text = Black cats bringing bad luck is a superstition (a belief about luck or magic with no evidence); in some places, such as parts of Britain and Japan, they are even thought to bring good luck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 bringing bring VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | gerund | Black cats *not said here* | bad luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Black cats | a superstition | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | cats *= cat* | | some places such parts of Britain and Japan | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | | good luck | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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:026-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/11/) - next →: [Sleepovers and spooky stories, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/)