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title: Kittens stay inside until they are vaccinated, neutered and old enou… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kittens stay inside until they are vaccinated, neutered and old enough, because outside there are cars, dogs and fights with other cats. Who acts: Kittens, cars. 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 i
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# A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 16

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Kittens stay inside until they are vaccinated, neutered and old enough, because outside there are cars, dogs and fights with other cats.

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**Who acts:** Kittens, cars · **What happens:** stay, vaccinate, neuter, be · **To what, where:** Cats

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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 (Kittens, cars), 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:16
# text = Kittens stay inside until they are vaccinated, neutered and old enough, because outside there are cars, dogs and fights with other cats.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	neutered	neuter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **stay** | present | Kittens |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vaccinate** | present · passive |  | Cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **neuter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **does** | present | cars with other cats and dogs and fights |  |  | there |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R8-pos-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.

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

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