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title: Dogs need exercise every day; walks keep them fit and happy. — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs need exercise every day; walks keep them fit and happy. Who acts: Dogs, walks. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 14

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Dogs need exercise every day; walks keep them fit and happy.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, walks · **What happens:** need, keep · **To what, where:** exercise, 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 (Dogs, walks), 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:14
# text = Dogs need exercise every day; walks keep them fit and happy.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Dogs | exercise |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot exercise=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | walks | smells *= smell* |  |  |  | fit *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R8-pos-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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