Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet, sentence 7
A cat lying belly up is often relaxed and trusting, but it does not always want a tummy rub; touching the tummy can set off a grab-and-kick reaction.
Who acts: cat, belly, touching · What happens: lie up, be, trust, not want, touch, set off · To what, where: belly, tummy rub, tummy, grab
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, belly, touching), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 relaxed | nsubj |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 cat | acl |
| 4 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lying | compound:prt |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 relaxed | cop |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 relaxed | advmod |
| 8 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trusting | cc |
| 10 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 relaxed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 want | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 want | advmod |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 relaxed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rub | det |
| 19 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rub | compound |
| 20 | rub | rub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 22 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 set | csubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tummy | det |
| 24 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touching | obj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 set | aux |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 relaxed | parataxis |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 set | compound:prt |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 reaction | det |
| 29 | grab | grab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 set | obj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 reaction | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 reaction | cc |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 and | punct |
| 33 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reaction | compound |
| 34 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grab | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 relaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie up | gerund | a cat not said here | belly | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a cat | often, relaxed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trust | gerund | a cat not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not want | present · do-support | belly | a tummy rub | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rub=Theme | |||
| 5 | touch | gerund | the tummy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tummy=Co-Theme | |||||
| 6 | set off | can | touching | grab and a kick reaction | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition grab=Patient |
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:7.
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, 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.
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