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title: When a family brings a dog home from a rescue centre, everyone is ex… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a family brings a dog home from a rescue centre, everyone is excited, but the dog is now counting on them every single day for years, not only while it is new and fun. Who acts: family, everyone, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology 
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 0

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When a family brings a dog home from a rescue centre, everyone is excited, but the dog is now counting on them every single day for years, not only while it is new and fun.

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**Who acts:** family, everyone, dog · **What happens:** bring, be, count, not be · **To what, where:** dog, rescue centre

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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 (family, everyone, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:0
# text = When a family brings a dog home from a rescue centre, everyone is excited, but the dog is now counting on them every single day for years, not only while it is new and fun.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
26	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | a family | a dog |  | a rescue centre |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme from centre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present · progressive | the dog |  |  |  | now; day; year | on them *= they* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | dog |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:biology:225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility.lesson:0`.

**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, R6-punct-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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