Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 14
When a cat turns its bottom towards your face it is being friendly; cats sniff each other there to say hello, so it is the cat version of a handshake.
Who acts: cat, luck, cats · What happens: turn, bottom, be, sniff, say · To what, where: face, other, cat version · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology 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, luck, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 turns | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | nsubj |
| 4 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 friendly | advcl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bottom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bottom | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 friendly | aux |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 friendly | cop |
| 13 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sniff | punct |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sniff | nsubj |
| 16 | sniff | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 friendly | parataxis |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sniff | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sniff | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 say | mark |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sniff | advcl |
| 22 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 21 say | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 version | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 version | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 version | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 version | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 version | det |
| 28 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 version | compound |
| 29 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friendly | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 handshake | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 handshake | det |
| 32 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 version | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 friendly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a cat | your face | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards face=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bottom | luck | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present · progressive | friendly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sniff | present | cats | each other | there | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | cats not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | luck | the cat version | of a handshake | tree rules |
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, 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:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet.lesson:14.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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