--- title: A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics description: A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and needs many years of care. Who acts: pet, puppy. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and r…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/) / 16 # Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility, sentence 16 A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and needs many years of care. **Who acts:** pet, puppy · **What happens:** be, give, grow up, need · **To what, where:** puppy 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 (pet, puppy), 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:16 # text = A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and needs many years of care. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a pet | | | | | for life | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | participle | | a puppy *not said here* | | | | as a Christmas present | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow up** | present | a puppy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | a puppy *not said here* | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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](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:16`. **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): no change. **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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