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title: Most dogs have 18 toes: four on each paw plus a thumb-like dewclaw h… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics
description: Most dogs have 18 toes: four on each paw plus a thumb-like dewclaw high on each front leg that does not touch the ground. Who acts: Most dogs, front leg. A sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 17

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Most dogs have 18 toes: four on each paw plus a thumb-like dewclaw high on each front leg that does not touch the ground.

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**Who acts:** Most dogs, front leg · **What happens:** have, not touch · **To what, where:** 18 toes, ground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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 (Most dogs, front leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:17
# text = Most dogs have 18 toes: four on each paw plus a thumb-like dewclaw high on each front leg that does not touch the ground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dewclaw	dewclaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Most dogs | 18 toes plus a like dewclaw on each front leg |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | each front leg | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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**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.

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

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