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title: Some cats have extra toes, and Ernest Hemingway's old house in Flori… — A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cats have extra toes, and Ernest Hemingway's old house in Florida still has dozens of cats, many with six toes. Who acts: cats, old house. 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
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# A kitten at home: litter trays, scratching posts and play, sentence 13

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Some cats have extra toes, and Ernest Hemingway's old house in Florida still has dozens of cats, many with six toes.

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**Who acts:** cats, old house · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** extra toes, dozens

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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 (cats, old house), 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:13
# text = Some cats have extra toes, and Ernest Hemingway's old house in Florida still has dozens of cats, many with six 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
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	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	Ernest	Ernest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Hemingway	Hemingway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl
17	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	.	.	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 | some cats | extra toes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Ernest Hemingway's old house in Florida | dozens of cats and many six toes |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=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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**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:13`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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