--- title: Rescue centres take in lost or given-up animals, and staff help matc… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Rescue centres take in lost or given-up animals, and staff help match each one to the right family; many older animals are already trained and calm. Who acts: Rescue centres, staff, help. 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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 (Rescue centres, staff, help), 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:12 # text = Rescue centres take in lost or given-up animals, and staff help match each one to the right family; many older animals are already trained and calm. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 lost lost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=7:compound 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 14 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 already already ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Rescue centres | | | lost or animals | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lost=Location | | 2 | **give up** | participle | Rescue centres *not said here* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | | staff | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **match** | infinitive | help | each one | | | | to the right family | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to family=Co-Patient | | 5 | **train** | present · passive | | many older animals | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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:325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first.lesson:12`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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