--- title: Cat claws curve backwards, so they grip well going up but not going… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Cat claws curve backwards, so they grip well going up but not going down head first, and cats come down trees backwards. Who acts: Cat claws, claws, cats. 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 depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [A kitten at home: litter trays, scratc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/) / 15 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 15 Cat claws curve backwards, so they grip well going up but not going down head first, and cats come down trees backwards. **Who acts:** Cat claws, claws, cats · **What happens:** curve, grip, go up, not go down, come down · **To what, where:** head, trees 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 (Cat claws, claws, cats), 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:15 # text = Cat claws curve backwards, so they grip well going up but not going down head first, and cats come down trees backwards. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 curve curve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curve** | present | Cat claws | | | | | backwards *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 2 | **grip** | present | claws *= claw* | | | | | well *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go up** | gerund | claws *= claw* *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **go down** | gerund | claws *= claw* *not said here* | head | | | | first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **come down** | present | cats | trees | | | | backwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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](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:15`. **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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