--- title: Some cheap puppies come from puppy farms where mothers are kept in p… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Some cheap puppies come from puppy farms where mothers are kept in poor conditions, and such puppies are more often ill or scared; good breeders and rescues let you meet the puppy with its mother. Who acts: cheap puppies, such puppies, good breeders, you. 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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 (cheap puppies, such puppies, good breeders, you), 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:17 # text = Some cheap puppies come from puppy farms where mothers are kept in poor conditions, and such puppies are more often ill or scared; good breeders and rescues let you meet the puppy with its mother. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 9 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 breeders breeder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 rescues rescue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **come** | present | some cheap puppies | | | puppy farms | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from farm=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **keep** | present · passive | | mothers | | poor conditions | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in condition=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | such puppies | | | | | ill, often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | such puppies *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | present | good breeders and rescues | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **meet** | infinitive | you | the puppy | | | | with puppy's mother | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme with mother=Instrument | 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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