--- title: Dogs are social animals and need company; a dog left chained alone a… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs are social animals and need company; a dog left chained alone all day becomes lonely and unhappy, and an adult can report it to an animal welfare charity. Who acts: Dogs, dog, adult. 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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 (Dogs, dog, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:15 # text = Dogs are social animals and need company; a dog left chained alone all day becomes lonely and unhappy, and an adult can report it to an animal welfare charity. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 chained chain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 13 alone alone ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 welfare welfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Dogs | social animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | Dogs *not said here* | company | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **chain** | participle | a dog *not said here* | | | | | alone *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | a dog | | | | | lonely *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **report** | can | a adult | company | a welfare charity | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to charity=Recipient | 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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/13/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)