--- title: Most cats have 18 toes, five on each front paw and four on each back… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics description: Most cats have 18 toes, five on each front paw and four on each back paw, and cats walk on their toes. Who acts: Most cats, cats. A sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [A kitten at home: litter trays, scratc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play/) / 12 # A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 12 Most cats have 18 toes, five on each front paw and four on each back paw, and cats walk on their toes. **Who acts:** Most cats, cats · **What happens:** have, walk · **To what, where:** 18 toes, toes This is a sentence of the lesson «A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play» 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 cats, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:12 # text = Most cats have 18 toes, five on each front paw and four on each back paw, and cats walk on their toes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 cats cat 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 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 appos _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 10 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Most cats | 18 toes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **walk** | present | cats | | | Cats's toes | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory | 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. **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:327-a-kitten-at-home-litter-trays-scratching-posts-and-play.lesson:12`. **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. 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