--- title: Picture a kitten halfway up the curtains, mewing: its claws curve ba… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a kitten halfway up the curtains, mewing: its claws curve backwards like hooks, so they grip well going up but not coming down head first. Who acts: you, claws. 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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 (you, claws), 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:4 # text = Picture a kitten halfway up the curtains, mewing: its claws curve backwards like hooks, so they grip well going up but not coming down head first. # 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 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 up up ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 mewing mew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 curve curve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 backwards backward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 27 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitten | | | | up the curtains; halfway *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme | | 2 | **mew** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **curve** | present | kitten's claws | | | | | like hooks; backward *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 4 | **grip** | present | claws *= claw* | | | | | well *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go up** | gerund | claws *= claw* *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **not** **come down** | gerund | claws *= claw* *not said here* | head | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:4`. **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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