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title: Real dogs can be very protective of their puppies and home, but amon… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real dogs can be very protective of their puppies and home, but among pet dogs the mother does most of the puppy care, not the father as Spike does. Who acts: Real dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 11

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Real dogs can be very protective of their puppies and home, but among pet dogs the mother does most of the puppy care, not the father as Spike does.

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**Who acts:** Real dogs · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (Real dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:11
# text = Real dogs can be very protective of their puppies and home, but among pet dogs the mother does most of the puppy care, not the father as Spike does.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.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 ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	protective	protective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	Spike	spike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Real dogs |  |  |  |  | of dogs's puppies and home; protective *property* | tree rules |

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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:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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.

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

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