--- title: A husky was bred to pull sleds for hours in the snow, so it would be… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: A husky was bred to pull sleds for hours in the snow, so it would be bored and lonely there; a pair of guinea pigs or some fish might fit his life far better. Who acts: husky, pair. 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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 (husky, pair), 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:4 # text = A husky was bred to pull sleds for hours in the snow, so it would be bored and lonely there; a pair of guinea pigs or some fish might fit his life far better. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 husky husky NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 sleds sled NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 18 bored bore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | past · passive | | a husky | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | | sleds | | the snow | hour | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme | | 3 | **is** | would | husky | | | there | | bore *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | husky *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fit** | might | a pair of guinea pigs or some fish | pair's life | | | | good *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | 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:4`. **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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