--- title: A kitten pouncing on feet under a duvet is practising stalking hidde… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: A kitten pouncing on feet under a duvet is practising stalking hidden prey, and using toys instead of hands and feet stops it learning to bite people. Who acts: kitten. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:10 # text = A kitten pouncing on feet under a duvet is practising stalking hidden prey, and using toys instead of hands and feet stops it learning to bite people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 pouncing pounce VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 duvet duvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 practising practise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:csubj 11 stalking stalk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 12 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 17 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pounce** | gerund | a kitten *not said here* | | | feet | | under a duvet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | | 2 | **practise** | present · progressive | a kitten | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stalk** | gerund | a kitten *not said here* | hidden prey | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 4 | **use** | gerund | a kitten *not said here* | toys | | | | instead hands and feet | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient | | 5 | **stop** | present | a kitten *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **learn** | gerund | kitten | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **bite** | to-infinitive | kitten *not said here* | people | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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