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title: A new puppy often cries at night because it misses its mother and li… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics
description: A new puppy often cries at night because it misses its mother and littermates, and puppies sleep about 18 hours a day while they grow. Who acts: new puppy, bladder, puppies, mother. A sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 7

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A new puppy often cries at night because it misses its mother and littermates, and puppies sleep about 18 hours a day while they grow.

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**Who acts:** new puppy, bladder, puppies, mother · **What happens:** cry, miss, sleep, grow · **To what, where:** mother

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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 (new puppy, bladder, puppies, mother), 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:7
# text = A new puppy often cries at night because it misses its mother and littermates, and puppies sleep about 18 hours a day while they grow.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	littermates	littermate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a new puppy |  |  |  | night | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **miss** | present | bladder | bladder's mother and littermates |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | puppies |  |  |  | hour |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | present | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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