A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 4

Picture a kitten halfway up the curtains, mewing: its claws curve backwards like hooks, so they grip well going up but not coming down head first.

Who acts: you, claws · What happens: picture, mew, curve, grip, go up, not come down · To what, where: kitten, head

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 (you, claws), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kitten	det
3	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	1 Picture	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 curtains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 curtains	det
7	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picture	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mewing	punct
9	mewing	mew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	acl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 curve	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 claws	nmod:poss
12	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 curve	nsubj
13	curve	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
14	backwards	backward	ADV	_	13 curve	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 hooks	case
16	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 curve	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grip	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 grip	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grip	nsubj
20	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 curve	conj
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 grip	advmod
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 grip	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 going	compound:prt
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 coming	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 coming	advmod
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 going	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 coming	compound:prt
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 coming	obl:unmarked
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 coming	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a kitten	up the curtains; halfway property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme
2	mew	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	curve	present	kitten's claws		like hooks; backward property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
4	grip	present	claws = claw		well property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	go up	gerund	claws = claw not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	not come down	gerund	claws = claw not said here	head	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:4.

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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