--- title: That is why people say a pet is for life, not just for Christmas: a… — Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibil… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why people say a pet is for life, not just for Christmas: a cute puppy becomes a big dog that needs walks, food and love for ten years or more. Who acts: That, people, pet, cute puppy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, people, pet, cute 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:4 # text = That is why people say a pet is for life, not just for Christmas: a cute puppy becomes a big dog that needs walks, food and love for ten years or more. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 cute cute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:appos 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a pet | | | | | for life; for Christmas | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | present | a cute puppy | a big dog | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | a big dog | walks and food and love | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot walk=Theme | 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:4`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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