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title: The first months are when a puppy learns what is safe, so it meets b… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics
description: The first months are when a puppy learns what is safe, so it meets buses, bikes, children and calm dogs, carried in arms until its vaccinations are done. Who acts: first months, bladder, vaccinations. A sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 6

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The first months are when a puppy learns what is safe, so it meets buses, bikes, children and calm dogs, carried in arms until its vaccinations are done.

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**Who acts:** first months, bladder, vaccinations · **What happens:** be, meet, carry, vaccinate · **To what, where:** buses, arms

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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 (first months, bladder, vaccinations), 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:6
# text = The first months are when a puppy learns what is safe, so it meets buses, bikes, children and calm dogs, carried in arms until its vaccinations are done.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	learns	learn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	vaccinations	vaccination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the first months |  |  |  |  | learn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | present | bladder | buses and bikes and children and calm dogs |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | participle | bladder *not said here* |  |  | arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | bladder's vaccinations |  |  |  |  | done *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **vaccinate** |  | bladder |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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