A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 17

Most dogs have 18 toes: four on each paw plus a thumb-like dewclaw high on each front leg that does not touch the ground.

Who acts: Most dogs, front leg · What happens: have, not touch · To what, where: 18 toes, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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 (Most dogs, front leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 four	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	appos
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 paw	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 paw	det
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 four	nmod
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	16 dewclaw	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dewclaw	det
13	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 thumb	punct
15	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dewclaw	amod
16	dewclaw	dewclaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toes	conj
17	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 leg	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 leg	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 leg	det
20	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leg	amod
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dewclaw	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 touch	nsubj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 touch	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 touch	advmod
25	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leg	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 touch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most dogs	18 toes plus a like dewclaw on each front leg					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	not touch	present · do-support	each front leg	the ground					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:17.

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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