--- title: Food, vet visits, vaccines, insurance, toys and beds cost far more t… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Food, vet visits, vaccines, insurance, toys and beds cost far more than the pet itself, and over its life a dog can cost many thousands of pounds. Who acts: Food, dog. 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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 (Food, dog), 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:14 # text = Food, vet visits, vaccines, insurance, toys and beds cost far more than the pet itself, and over its life a dog can cost many thousands of pounds. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 vaccines vaccine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 insurance insurance NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 obj _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 18 nmod:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:unmarked 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present | Food and vet visits and vaccines and insurance and toys and beds | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | | 2 | **cost** | can | a dog | many thousands of pounds | | insurance's life | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value | 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. 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