--- title: Before getting a pet, a family should agree who feeds it, cleans up,… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Before getting a pet, a family should agree who feeds it, cleans up, walks it, looks after it on holiday and pays for it; skipping these questions is why many animals end up in rescue centres. Who acts: family, many animals. 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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 (family, many 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:8 # text = Before getting a pet, a family should agree who feeds it, cleans up, walks it, looks after it on holiday and pays for it; skipping these questions is why many animals end up in rescue centres. # 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): no change 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 skipping skip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 31 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl:relcl _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 centres centre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | a family *not said here* | a pet | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | should | a family | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **feed** | present | | dog | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **clean up** | present | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **walk** | present | | dog | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | | 6 | **look** | present | | | | | after dog | on holiday | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on holiday=Theme | | 7 | **pay** | present | | | | | | for dog | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | | 8 | **skip** | gerund | a family *not said here* | this questions | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **end up** | present | many animals | | | | | in rescue centres *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in centre=Result | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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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