A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 15

Cat claws curve backwards, so they grip well going up but not going down head first, and cats come down trees backwards.

Who acts: Cat claws, claws, cats · What happens: curve, grip, go up, not go down, come down · To what, where: head, trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» 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 claws, claws, 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	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claws	compound
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 curve	nsubj
3	curve	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 curve	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grip	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 grip	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grip	nsubj
8	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curve	conj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 grip	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 grip	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 going	advmod
14	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 going	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 going	compound:prt
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl:unmarked
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 going	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
20	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curve	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 come	compound:prt
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obj
24	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 curve	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	curve	present	Cat claws		backwards property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	grip	present	claws = claw		well property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go up	gerund	claws = claw not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not go down	gerund	claws = claw not said here	head	first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	come down	present	cats	trees	backwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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, 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:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:15.

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 ×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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