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title: Robot pets already exist, but they are not living animals and do not… — The future: hopes · tree and pragmatics
description: Robot pets already exist, but they are not living animals and do not need or feel care the way real pets do. Who acts: Robot pets, pets, real pets. A sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future: hopes, sentence 13

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Robot pets already exist, but they are not living animals and do not need or feel care the way real pets do.

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**Who acts:** Robot pets, pets, real pets · **What happens:** exist, not live, not need, feel, do · **To what, where:** animals, care, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai 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 (Robot pets, pets, real pets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:13
# text = Robot pets already exist, but they are not living animals and do not need or feel care the way real pets do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 024-future-hopes.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **exist** | present | Robot pets |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **live** | present · progressive | pets *= pet* | animals |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme animal=Location |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | pets *= pet* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | pets *= pet* *not said here* | care |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | real pets | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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