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title: A raccoon's front paws have five fingers and are very sensitive, so… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: A raccoon's front paws have five fingers and are very sensitive, so it can open bin lids, jars and even door latches. Who acts: front paws, possum. A sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Raccoons, opossums and skunks, sentence 5

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A raccoon's front paws have five fingers and are very sensitive, so it can open bin lids, jars and even door latches.

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**Who acts:** front paws, possum · **What happens:** have, be, open · **To what, where:** five fingers, bin lids

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 (front paws, possum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:5
# text = A raccoon's front paws have five fingers and are very sensitive, so it can open bin lids, jars and even door latches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.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	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
18	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	latches	latch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a raccoon's front paws | five fingers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a raccoon's front paws *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sensitive *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | can | possum | bin lids and jars and door latches |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=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:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks.lesson:5`.

**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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