--- title: Puppies are born deaf and blind, their eyes open at about two weeks,… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics description: Puppies are born deaf and blind, their eyes open at about two weeks, and in Britain it is against the law to sell a puppy younger than eight weeks. 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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: 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:14 # text = Puppies are born deaf and blind, their eyes open at about two weeks, and in Britain it is against the law to sell a puppy younger than eight weeks. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | Puppies | | | | deaf *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | Britain | | against the law | tree rules | | 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | a puppy | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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: [A puppy at home: the first weeks, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/13/) - next →: [A puppy at home: the first weeks, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/)