A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 5
Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down a ladder.
Who acts: kitten · What happens: leave, work out, back down
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 (kitten), 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 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 works | advcl |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Left | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Left | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 works | nsubj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 works | advmod |
| 6 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 works | compound:prt |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 back | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 back | mark |
| 10 | back | back | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 works | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 back | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 person | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 ladder | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ladder | det |
| 18 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | kitten not said here | calm property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work out | present | kitten | usually property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | back down | to-infinitive | kitten not said here | like a person down a ladder | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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): no change. 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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