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title: It is a living animal that needs food, care, company and a vet for m… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a living animal that needs food, care, company and a vet for many years, often for most of your school life and beyond. Who acts: It, living animal. A sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 1

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It is a living animal that needs food, care, company and a vet for many years, often for most of your school life and beyond.

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**Who acts:** It, living animal · **What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** living animal, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» 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 (It, living animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:1
# text = It is a living animal that needs food, care, company and a vet for many years, often for most of your school life and beyond.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | It | a living animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | a living animal | food and care and company and a vet |  |  | year | for most of your school life | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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**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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