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title: A house cat usually has 18 toes, 5 on each front paw and 4 on each b… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat · tree and pragmatics
description: A house cat usually has 18 toes, 5 on each front paw and 4 on each back paw, and about 24 big whiskers on its face, about 12 on each side. Who acts: house cat. A sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat, sentence 17

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A house cat usually has 18 toes, 5 on each front paw and 4 on each back paw, and about 24 big whiskers on its face, about 12 on each side.

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**Who acts:** house cat · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 18 toes, 5 front paw

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 (house cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.lesson:17
# text = A house cat usually has 18 toes, 5 on each front paw and 4 on each back paw, and about 24 big whiskers on its face, about 12 on each side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 020-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:appos
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | a house cat | 18 toes and 24 big whiskers on cat's face |  | each 5 front paw and each 4 back paw |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |

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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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**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. **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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