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title: Puppies need their vaccinations before walking where other dogs go,… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics
description: Puppies need their vaccinations before walking where other dogs go, because serious illnesses spread through dog poo and spit; until then a puppy can be carried outside. Who acts: Puppies, other dogs, serious illnesses, accidents. A sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» of the bi
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# A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 10

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Puppies need their vaccinations before walking where other dogs go, because serious illnesses spread through dog poo and spit; until then a puppy can be carried outside.

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**Who acts:** Puppies, other dogs, serious illnesses, accidents · **What happens:** need, walk, go, spread, carry, vaccinate · **To what, where:** vaccinations, dog poo, puppy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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 (Puppies, other dogs, serious illnesses, accidents), 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:10
# text = Puppies need their vaccinations before walking where other dogs go, because serious illnesses spread through dog poo and spit; until then a puppy can be carried outside.
# 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): no change
1	Puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	vaccinations	vaccination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
29	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Puppies | accidents's vaccinations |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vaccination=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | Puppies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | other dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | present | serious illnesses |  |  | dog poo and spit |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through poo=Location |
| 5 | **carry** | can · passive |  | a puppy |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **vaccinate** |  | accidents *= accident* |  |  |  |  |  | nom vaccination «act transitive»: poss=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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**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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