--- title: Wise families sit down before getting a pet and write a list: who fe… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Wise families sit down before getting a pet and write a list: who feeds it, who cleans up, who walks it, where it goes on holiday, how long it is alone and how much it all costs. Who acts: Wise families, list. 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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 (Wise families, list), 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:2 # text = Wise families sit down before getting a pet and write a list: who feeds it, who cleans up, who walks it, where it goes on holiday, how long it is alone and how much it all costs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 39 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:det 42 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **sit down** | present | Wise families | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | gerund | Wise families *not said here* | a pet | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus | | 3 | **write** | infinitive | Wise families *not said here* | a list | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | present | a list | list | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **clean up** | present | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **walk** | present | | list | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | | 7 | **go** | present | list | | | holiday | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location | | 8 | **is** | present | list | | | | | alone, long *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **cost** | present | list | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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