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title: All kittens are born with blue eyes, their eyes open at about one to… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics
description: All kittens are born with blue eyes, their eyes open at about one to two weeks, and their real eye colour shows from about six or seven weeks. Who acts: real eye colour. A sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 11

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All kittens are born with blue eyes, their eyes open at about one to two weeks, and their real eye colour shows from about six or seven weeks.

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**Who acts:** real eye colour · **What happens:** bear, show · **To what, where:** kittens, six

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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 (real eye colour), 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:11
# text = All kittens are born with blue eyes, their eyes open at about one to two weeks, and their real eye colour shows from about six or seven weeks.
# 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
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nummod
30	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | all kittens |  |  |  | with blue eyes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | eyes's real eye colour |  |  | six or weeks |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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