--- title: Scratching pulls off old outer layers of the claws and leaves scent… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Scratching pulls off old outer layers of the claws and leaves scent from glands in the paws, so a tall, steady scratching post is needed. Who acts: Scratching. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 8 Scratching pulls off old outer layers of the claws and leaves scent from glands in the paws, so a tall, steady scratching post is needed. **Who acts:** Scratching · **What happens:** pull off, leave, need · **To what, where:** old outer layers, scent, glands, tall steady scratching post 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 (Scratching), 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:8 # text = Scratching pulls off old outer layers of the claws and leaves scent from glands in the paws, so a tall, steady scratching post is needed. # 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 Scratching scratching NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 21 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 scratching scratching NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **pull off** | present | Scratching | old outer layers of the claws | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Eventuality | | 2 | **leave** | present | Scratching *not said here* | scent | | glands in the paws | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme scent=Source from gland=Destination | | 3 | **need** | present · passive | | a tall steady scratching post | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:8`. **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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