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title: Cartoonists often draw four fingers because it is quicker and looks… — Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoonists often draw four fingers because it is quicker and looks neater, while a real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all. Who acts: Cartoonists, video, real cat. A sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what 
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# Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real, sentence 21

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Cartoonists often draw four fingers because it is quicker and looks neater, while a real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all.

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**Who acts:** Cartoonists, video, real cat · **What happens:** draw, be, have · **To what, where:** four fingers, five toes, front paw

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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 (Cartoonists, video, real cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:21
# text = Cartoonists often draw four fingers because it is quicker and looks neater, while a real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.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 ×1
1	Cartoonists	cartoonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	neater	neat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nummod
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
29	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **draw** | present | Cartoonists | four fingers |  |  |  | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | video |  |  |  |  | look, neat, quick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | a real cat | five toes |  | each front paw and each back paw |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=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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**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 ×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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