A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 6

A good home gives a kitten a clean tray, a tall steady post, safe toys instead of string or hands, high places to escape a dog, and indoor life until it is vaccinated, neutered (given a small operation at the vet's so it cannot have kittens) and old enough.

Who acts: good home, kitten · What happens: give, escape, vaccinate, neuter, not have · To what, where: clean tray, kitten, dog, small operation, vet, kittens

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 (good home, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 home	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 home	amod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kitten	det
6	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tray	det
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tray	amod
9	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 post	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 post	det
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 post	amod
13	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 post	amod
14	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tray	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 toys	punct
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 toys	amod
17	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tray	conj
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 string	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 toys	nmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 hands	cc
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 string	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 places	punct
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 places	amod
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 toys	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 escape	mark
27	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 places	acl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dog	det
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escape	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 life	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 life	cc
32	indoor	indoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 life	amod
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 places	conj
34	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 vaccinated	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 vaccinated	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 vaccinated	aux:pass
37	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 life	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 neutered	punct
39	neutered	neuter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 vaccinated	conj
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 given	punct
41	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 vaccinated	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 operation	det
43	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 operation	amod
44	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 given	obj
45	at	at	ADP	_	47 vet	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 vet	det
47	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 operation	nmod
48	's	's	PART	_	47 vet	case
49	so	so	ADV	_	53 have	advmod
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 have	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 have	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 have	advmod
53	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gives	parataxis
54	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 have	obj
55	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 old	cc
57	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gives	conj
58	enough	enough	ADV	_	57 old	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	a good home	a clean tray and a tall steady post and safe toys instead string or hands and high places and indoor life	a kitten		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient tray=Theme
2	escape	to-infinitive	a good home not said here	a dog			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Initial_Location
3	vaccinate	present · passive		kitten			tree rules
4	neuter	participle					tree rules
5	give	participle		a small operation		the vet	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent operation=Theme at vet=Asset
6	not have	can	kitten	kittens			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient

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:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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