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title: A cat print shows four toes and no claw marks, because cats pull the… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cat print shows four toes and no claw marks, because cats pull their claws in when walking, and it is rounder than a dog's print; dogs and foxes cannot pull their claws in, so their claw marks show. Who acts: cat print, cats, cat, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, t
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# The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 7

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A cat print shows four toes and no claw marks, because cats pull their claws in when walking, and it is rounder than a dog's print; dogs and foxes cannot pull their claws in, so their claw marks show.

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**Who acts:** cat print, cats, cat, dogs, claw marks, dog · **What happens:** show, pull in, walk, be, not pull, print · **To what, where:** four toes, claws

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (cat print, cats, cat, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:7
# text = A cat print shows four toes and no claw marks, because cats pull their claws in when walking, and it is rounder than a dog's print; dogs and foxes cannot pull their claws in, so their claw marks show.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
10	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	PART	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	rounder	round	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **show** | present | a cat print | four toes and no claw marks |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toe=Recipient |
| 2 | **pull in** | present | cats | prints's claws |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | cat |  |  |  |  | than a dog's print; round *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **pull** | can | dogs and foxes | prints's claws |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
| 6 | **show** | present | prints's claw marks |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **print** |  | a dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **mark** |  | prints *= print* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:7`.

**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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