--- title: Cats have one life; they are agile (quick and good at balancing) and… — How would we know? Asking experts and spotting t… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats have one life; they are agile (quick and good at balancing) and often survive falls and scrapes, which is where the saying comes from. Who acts: Cats, lives, saying. A sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» of the myths course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/7/) [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/) / [How would we know? Asking experts and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/) / 7 # How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks, sentence 7 Cats have one life; they are agile (quick and good at balancing) and often survive falls and scrapes, which is where the saying comes from. **Who acts:** Cats, lives, saying · **What happens:** have, be, balance, survive, come from · **To what, where:** one life, falls This is a sentence of the lesson «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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, lives, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.lesson:7 # text = Cats have one life; they are agile (quick and good at balancing) and often survive falls and scrapes, which is where the saying comes from. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 030-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 agile agile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 balancing balance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 obl _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 falls fall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 scrapes scrape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 2 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Cats | one life | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | lives *= life* | | | | | agile *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **balance** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **survive** | present | lives *= life* *not said here* | falls and scrapes | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fall=Circumstance | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come from** | present | the saying | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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