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title: A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines make deep narrow holes that trap germs, so even small bites can get infected. Who acts: dog, cat, long pointed canines, deep narrow holes. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange 
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 20

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A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines make deep narrow holes that trap germs, so even small bites can get infected.

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**Who acts:** dog, cat, long pointed canines, deep narrow holes, small bites · **What happens:** have, point, make, trap, get · **To what, where:** 42 teeth, 30, deep narrow holes, germs

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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 (dog, cat, long pointed canines, deep narrow holes), 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:20
# text = A dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30, and their long pointed canines make deep narrow holes that trap germs, so even small bites can get infected.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	canines	canine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	trap	trap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	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 | a dog | 42 teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a cat | 30 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=Patient |
| 3 | **point** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | teeth's long pointed canines | deep narrow holes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 5 | **trap** | present | deep narrow holes | germs |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient |
| 6 | **get** | can | small bites |  |  |  |  | infected *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

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