A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 3
It buries its poo so enemies cannot smell it, scratches to clean its claws and leave scent, and kneads your jumper the way it once kneaded its mother to make the milk flow.
Who acts: Most, enemies · What happens: bury, not smell, scratch, clean, leave, knead · To what, where: poo, Most, claws, scent, jumper, mother
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 (Most, enemies), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 buries | nsubj |
| 2 | buries | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 poo | nmod:poss |
| 4 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buries | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 smell | mark |
| 6 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smell | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 smell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 smell | advmod |
| 9 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 buries | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smell | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scratches | punct |
| 12 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 buries | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 clean | mark |
| 14 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scratches | xcomp |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 claws | nmod:poss |
| 16 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clean | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 clean | conj |
| 19 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kneads | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kneads | cc |
| 22 | kneads | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 buries | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 jumper | nmod:poss |
| 24 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kneads | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kneads | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kneaded | nsubj |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 kneaded | advmod |
| 29 | kneaded | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 way | acl:relcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kneaded | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 kneaded | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 flow | det |
| 35 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flow | compound |
| 36 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buries | 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 | bury | present | Most | Most's poo | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not smell | can | enemies | Most | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scratch | present | Most not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clean | to-infinitive | Most not said here | Most's claws | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | Most not said here | scent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | knead | present | Most not said here | your jumper | the way obl:unmarked | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent jumper=Material | |||
| 7 | knead | past | Most | Most's mother | once property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent mother=Material | |||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | Most not said here | the milk flow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product |
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:3.
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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