--- title: Kittens knead their mother's tummy to make her milk flow, and many c… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Kittens knead their mother's tummy to make her milk flow, and many cats keep kneading all their lives when happy; cats purr when content but sometimes also when hurt or scared. Who acts: Kittens, many cats, cats, dog. 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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 (Kittens, many cats, cats, dog), 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:17 # text = Kittens knead their mother's tummy to make her milk flow, and many cats keep kneading all their lives when happy; cats purr when content but sometimes also when hurt or scared. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knead knead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 kneading knead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 xcomp _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 purr purr VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 advmod _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 34 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knead** | present | Kittens | Cats's mother's tummy | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tummy=Material | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Kittens *not said here* | dog's milk flow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product | | 3 | **keep** | present | many cats | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **knead** | gerund | many cats *not said here* | Cats's lives | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent life=Material | | 5 | **purr** | present | cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hurt** | participle | cats *not said here* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **flow** | | dog | | | | | | nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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