--- title: Dogs are pack animals and should not be left alone for more than abo… — Choosing a pet: the questions to ask first · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs are pack animals and should not be left alone for more than about four hours; some dogs left too long bark, howl or chew out of worry. Who acts: Dogs. 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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 (Dogs), 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:9 # text = Dogs are pack animals and should not be left alone for more than about four hours; some dogs left too long bark, howl or chew out of worry. # 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 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 bark bark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case 30 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Dogs | pack animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **leave** | should · passive | Dogs *not said here* | | | | hour | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | some dogs *not said here* | | | | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bark** | present | some dogs | | | worry | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **howl** | present | some dogs *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **chew out** | present | some dogs *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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. **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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