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title: Wild animals like monkeys do not belong in homes, and a puppy should… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild animals like monkeys do not belong in homes, and a puppy should be met with its mother, or found at a rescue centre. Who acts: Wild animals. A sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first, sentence 6

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Wild animals like monkeys do not belong in homes, and a puppy should be met with its mother, or found at a rescue centre.

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**Who acts:** Wild animals · **What happens:** not belong, meet, find · **To what, where:** homes, puppy, rescue centre

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild animals), 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:6
# text = Wild animals like monkeys do not belong in homes, and a puppy should be met with its mother, or found at a rescue centre.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | Wild animals like monkeys |  |  | homes |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | should · passive |  | a puppy |  |  |  | with puppy's mother | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with mother=Instrument |
| 3 | **find** | participle |  |  |  | a rescue centre |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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