A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 16
Kittens stay inside until they are vaccinated, neutered and old enough, because outside there are cars, dogs and fights with other cats.
Who acts: Kittens, cars · What happens: stay, vaccinate, neuter, be · To what, where: Cats
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 (Kittens, cars), 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 | Kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 stay | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 vaccinated | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 vaccinated | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 vaccinated | aux:pass |
| 7 | vaccinated | vaccinate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stay | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 neutered | punct |
| 9 | neutered | neuter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vaccinated | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 old | cc |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vaccinated | conj |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 old | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 17 are | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 are | expl |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stay | advcl |
| 18 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dogs | punct |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fights | cc |
| 22 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 cats | case |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cats | amod |
| 25 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cars | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Kittens | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vaccinate | present · passive | Cats = cat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | neuter | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | does | present | cars with other cats and dogs and fights | there | outside property | vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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