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title: A kitten has 26 baby teeth and a grown cat has 30, and the baby teet… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kitten has 26 baby teeth and a grown cat has 30, and the baby teeth fall out from about three to four months. Who acts: kitten, grown cat, baby teeth. A sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 14

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A kitten has 26 baby teeth and a grown cat has 30, and the baby teeth fall out from about three to four months.

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**Who acts:** kitten, grown cat, baby teeth · **What happens:** have, grow, fall out · **To what, where:** 26 baby teeth, 30, three

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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 (kitten, grown cat, baby teeth), 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:14
# text = A kitten has 26 baby teeth and a grown cat has 30, and the baby teeth fall out from about three to four months.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a kitten | 26 baby teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | a grown cat | 30 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Patient |
| 4 | **fall out** | present | the baby teeth |  |  | three | month |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from three=Initial\_Location |

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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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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