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title: Some breeds, like the Norwegian puffin dog, have six toes on each fo… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics
description: Some breeds, like the Norwegian puffin dog, have six toes on each foot for climbing cliffs. Who acts: breeds, foot. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 18

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Some breeds, like the Norwegian puffin dog, have six toes on each foot for climbing cliffs.

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**Who acts:** breeds, foot · **What happens:** have, climb · **To what, where:** six toes, foot, cliffs

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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 (breeds, foot), 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:18
# text = Some breeds, like the Norwegian puffin dog, have six toes on each foot for climbing cliffs.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	breeds	breed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	puffin	puffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | present | some breeds like the Norwegian puffin dog | six toes |  | each foot |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **climb** | gerund | each foot *not said here* | cliffs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cliff=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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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