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title: For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 19

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For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** report, ride, reach · **To what, where:** street dogs, metro trains, places

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:19
# text = For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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 ×5
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	metro	metro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	stops	stop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
16	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **report** | past | people | street dogs  Moscow |  |  | year |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund | people *not said here* | metro trains |  |  |  | between stops | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent train=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | places |  |  |  | with food | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=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 ×5. **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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