A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 9
String, thread and ribbon must never be left lying about, because a kitten can swallow them and get badly hurt inside; wand toys with feathers are safer for play with a grown-up.
Who acts: String, kitten, wand toys · What happens: not leave, lie, swallow, get, hurt, be · To what, where: String
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 (String, kitten, wand toys), 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 | String | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thread | punct |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 String | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ribbon | cc |
| 5 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 String | conj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 left | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 left | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 lying | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swallow | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 swallow | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kitten | det |
| 15 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swallow | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swallow | aux |
| 17 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swallow | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 swallow | conj |
| 21 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 get | xcomp |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 toys | punct |
| 25 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 toys | compound |
| 26 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 safer | nsubj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 feathers | case |
| 28 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 toys | nmod |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 safer | cop |
| 30 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 left | parataxis |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 play | case |
| 32 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 safer | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 grown | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 up | det |
| 35 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 safer | obl |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 grown | punct |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 grown | compound |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | must · passive | String and thread and ribbon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | String and thread and ribbon not said here | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swallow | can | a kitten | string | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | a kitten not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hurt | participle | a kitten not said here | badly, inside property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is | present | wand toys with feathers | for play; with grown; safe property | 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:9.
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): R5-strong ×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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