--- title: A good home gives a kitten a clean tray, a tall steady post, safe to… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: A good home gives a kitten a clean tray, a tall steady post, safe toys instead of string or hands, high places to escape a dog, and indoor life until it is vaccinated, neutered (given a small operation at the vet's so it cannot have kittens) and old enough. Who acts: good home, kitten. 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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 (good home, 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:6 # text = A good home gives a kitten a clean tray, a tall steady post, safe toys instead of string or hands, high places to escape a dog, and indoor life until it is vaccinated, neutered (given a small operation at the vet's so it cannot have kittens) and old enough. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 18 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 indoor indoor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 until until SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 vaccinated vaccinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 neutered neuter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 51 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 54 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 55 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 58 enough enough ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a good home | a clean tray and a tall steady post and safe toys instead string or hands and high places and indoor life | a kitten | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Recipient tray=Theme | | 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | a good home *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **vaccinate** | present · passive | | kitten | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **neuter** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | participle | | a small operation | | the vet | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent operation=Theme at vet=Asset | | 6 | **not** **have** | can | kitten | kittens | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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