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title: A kitten should play with a wand toy, not your fingers, or it learns… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics
description: A kitten should play with a wand toy, not your fingers, or it learns that hands are toys and bites harder when grown. Who acts: kitten, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Cats and dogs up close, sentence 14

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A kitten should play with a wand toy, not your fingers, or it learns that hands are toys and bites harder when grown.

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**Who acts:** kitten, hands · **What happens:** play, learn, be, grow · **To what, where:** fingers, toys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday 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, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:14
# text = A kitten should play with a wand toy, not your fingers, or it learns that hands are toys and bites harder when grown.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | should | a kitten | your fingers |  |  |  | with a wand toy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with toy=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | present | kitten |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | hands | toys and bites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | participle | hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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