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title: Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness. Who acts: Cages, dirty bedding. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 12

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Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.

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**Who acts:** Cages, dirty bedding · **What happens:** need, leave, cause · **To what, where:** cleaning, dirty bedding, smells

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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 (Cages, dirty bedding), 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:12
# text = Cages and hutches need cleaning regularly; dirty bedding left for a month causes smells and illness.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hutches	hutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
6	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **need** | present | Cages and hutches | cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaning=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | dirty bedding *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present | dirty bedding | smells and illness |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition smell=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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**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:12`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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