A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 17
Kittens knead their mother's tummy to make her milk flow, and many cats keep kneading all their lives when happy; cats purr when content but sometimes also when hurt or scared.
Who acts: Kittens, many cats, cats, dog · What happens: knead, make, keep, purr, hurt, flow · To what, where: tummy, milk flow, lives
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, many cats, cats, dog), 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 knead | nsubj |
| 2 | knead | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 mother | case |
| 6 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knead | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knead | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 flow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flow | compound |
| 11 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knead | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 keep | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cats | amod |
| 15 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knead | conj |
| 17 | kneading | knead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 lives | det:predet |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kneading | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 happy | advmod |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kneading | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 purr | punct |
| 24 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 purr | nsubj |
| 25 | purr | purr | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knead | parataxis |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 content | advmod |
| 27 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 purr | advcl |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 hurt | cc |
| 29 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 hurt | advmod |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 hurt | advmod |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 hurt | advmod |
| 32 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 content | conj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 hurt | cc |
| 34 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hurt | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knead | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knead | present | Kittens | Cats's mother's tummy | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tummy=Material | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Kittens not said here | dog's milk flow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | many cats | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | knead | gerund | many cats not said here | Cats's lives | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent life=Material | ||||
| 5 | purr | present | cats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hurt | participle | cats not said here | sometimes property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | flow | dog | nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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