A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 8
Scratching pulls off old outer layers of the claws and leaves scent from glands in the paws, so a tall, steady scratching post is needed.
Who acts: Scratching · What happens: pull off, leave, need · To what, where: old outer layers, scent, glands, tall steady scratching post
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 (Scratching), 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 | Scratching | scratching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 pulls | compound:prt |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layers | amod |
| 5 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layers | amod |
| 6 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pulls | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 claws | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 claws | det |
| 9 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 layers | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaves | cc |
| 11 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulls | conj |
| 12 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 glands | case |
| 14 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaves | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 paws | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 paws | det |
| 17 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glands | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 needed | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 needed | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 post | det |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 post | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tall | punct |
| 23 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 post | amod |
| 24 | scratching | scratching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 post | compound |
| 25 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 needed | aux:pass |
| 27 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pulls | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulls | 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 | pull off | present | Scratching | old outer layers of the claws | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | Scratching not said here | scent | glands in the paws | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination | |||
| 3 | need | present · passive | a tall steady scratching post | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:8.
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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