--- title: Monkeys and other wild animals need groups, space and food a home ca… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Monkeys and other wild animals need groups, space and food a home cannot give, often become unhappy and bite, and in many countries keeping them as pets is banned or strictly controlled. Who acts: Monkeys, home, many countries. 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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 (Monkeys, home, many countries), 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:16 # text = Monkeys and other wild animals need groups, space and food a home cannot give, often become unhappy and bite, and in many countries keeping them as pets is banned or strictly controlled. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj 28 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 strictly strictly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Monkeys and other wild animals | groups and space and food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot group=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give** | can | a home | food *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | a home *not said here* | | | | | often, unhappy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **bite** | infinitive | a home *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | gerund | many countries *not said here* | home | | | | as pets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **ban** | present · passive | Monkeys and other wild animals *not said here* | | | many countries | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» | | 7 | **control** | participle | Monkeys and other wild animals *not said here* | | | | | strictly *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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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