--- title: Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down a ladder. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 5 Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down a ladder. **Who acts:** kitten · **What happens:** leave, work out, back down 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:5 # text = Left calm, it usually works out how to back down, like a person down a ladder. # 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): no change 1 Left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 2 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 back back VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 down down ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | participle | kitten *not said here* | | | | | calm *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **work out** | present | kitten | | | | | usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **back down** | to-infinitive | kitten *not said here* | | | | | like a person down a ladder | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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): no change. **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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