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title: A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics
description: A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all, while cartoon cats like Tom are often drawn with four fingers; real cats cannot talk, wear clothes or bounce back from being flattened. Who acts: real cat, real cats. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz
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# The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 18

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A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all, while cartoon cats like Tom are often drawn with four fingers; real cats cannot talk, wear clothes or bounce back from being flattened.

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**Who acts:** real cat, real cats · **What happens:** have, draw, not talk, wear, bounce back, flatten · **To what, where:** five toes, front paw, cartoon cats, clothes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (real cat, real cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:18
# text = A real cat has five toes on each front paw and four on each back paw, eighteen in all, while cartoon cats like Tom are often drawn with four fingers; real cats cannot talk, wear clothes or bounce back from being flattened.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	40	obj	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	bounce	bounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=40:conj
44	back	back	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	flattened	flatten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	advcl	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a real cat | five toes |  | each front paw |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **draw** | present · passive |  | cartoon cats like Tom |  |  |  | with four fingers; often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **talk** | can | real cats |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wear** | infinitive | real cats *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 5 | **bounce back** | infinitive | real cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **flatten** | gerund · passive | real cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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. **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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