--- title: A kitten and a dog should meet slowly, first by smell and through a… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: A kitten and a dog should meet slowly, first by smell and through a gate, and the kitten needs high places to escape to. Who acts: kitten. 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 dependency tree and --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 18 A kitten and a dog should meet slowly, first by smell and through a gate, and the kitten needs high places to escape to. **Who acts:** kitten · **What happens:** meet, need, escape · **To what, where:** high places 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), 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:18 # text = A kitten and a dog should meet slowly, first by smell and through a gate, and the kitten needs high places to escape to. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 25 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **meet** | should | a kitten and a dog | | | | | by smell; first, slowly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **need** | present | the kitten | high places | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | | 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the kitten *not said here* | high places *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18`. **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 ×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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