A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 7

Cats bury their poo by instinct, and kittens learn the tray by watching their mother; a common rule is one tray for each cat plus one extra.

Who acts: Cats, kittens, tray, common rule · What happens: bury, learn, watch, be · To what, where: poo, tray, mother, one tray

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 (Cats, kittens, tray, common rule), 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	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bury	nsubj
2	bury	bury	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 poo	nmod:poss
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 instinct	case
6	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 learn	cc
9	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	nsubj
10	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bury	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tray	det
12	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 learn	obj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 watching	mark
14	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 tray	acl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watching	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tray	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rule	det
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rule	amod
20	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tray	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tray	cop
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 tray	nummod
23	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 cat	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tray	nmod
27	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	29 extra	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 extra	nummod
29	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tray	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Cats	Cats's poo	by instinct	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poo=Theme by instinct=Destination
2	learn	present	kittens	the tray		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Topic
3	watch	gerund	the tray not said here	tray's mother		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
4	is a	present	a common rule	one tray	for each cat	tree rules
5	be		a common rule not said here			tree rules

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:7.

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): R8-pos-agree ×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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