--- title: Cats bury their poo by instinct, and kittens learn the tray by watch… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Cats bury their poo by instinct, and kittens learn the tray by watching their mother; a common rule is one tray for each cat plus one extra. Who acts: Cats, kittens, tray, common rule. A sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 7 Cats bury their poo by instinct, and kittens learn the tray by watching their mother; a common rule is one tray for each cat plus one extra. **Who acts:** Cats, kittens, tray, common rule · **What happens:** bury, learn, watch, be · **To what, where:** poo, tray, mother, one tray 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 (Cats, kittens, tray, common rule), 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:7 # text = Cats bury their poo by instinct, and kittens learn the tray by watching their mother; a common rule is one tray for each cat plus one extra. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bury bury 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 _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=DET:PRP$:Number=Plur|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=DET:PRP$:Number=Plur|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | Cats | Cats's poo | | | | by instinct | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poo=Theme by instinct=Destination | | 2 | **learn** | present | kittens | the tray | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Topic | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | the tray *not said here* | tray's mother | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a common rule | one tray | | | | for each cat | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | a common rule *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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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