--- title: A puppy's first weeks in a new home are like a baby's first weeks at… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics description: A puppy's first weeks in a new home are like a baby's first weeks at nursery: everything is new, a bit scary and very exciting. Who acts: first weeks, everything. 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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 (first weeks, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:0 # text = A puppy's first weeks in a new home are like a baby's first weeks at nursery: everything is new, a bit scary and very exciting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 16 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a puppy's first weeks in a new home | | | | week | like a baby | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | everything | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | everything *not said here* | a bit | | | | | tree rules | 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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:0`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Choosing a pet: the questions to ask f…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/325-choosing-a-pet-the-questions-to-ask-first/17/) - next →: [A puppy at home: the first weeks, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/)