--- title: String, thread and ribbon must never be left lying about, because a… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: String, thread and ribbon must never be left lying about, because a kitten can swallow them and get badly hurt inside; wand toys with feathers are safer for play with a grown-up. Who acts: String, kitten, wand toys. 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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 (String, kitten, wand toys), 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:9 # text = String, thread and ribbon must never be left lying about, because a kitten can swallow them and get badly hurt inside; wand toys with feathers are safer for play with a grown-up. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 String string NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 kitten kitten NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 23 inside inside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **leave** | must · passive | | String and thread and ribbon | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | String and thread and ribbon *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swallow** | can | a kitten | string | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | a kitten *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **hurt** | participle | a kitten *not said here* | | | | | badly, inside *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | wand toys with feathers | | | | | for play; with grown; safe *property* | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×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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