--- title: Missing a pet is normal; talking, drawing, a photo book or planting… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: Missing a pet is normal; talking, drawing, a photo book or planting a tree can help, and other pets in the home may seem sad too. Who acts: Missing, other pets. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/) / 18 # Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 18 Missing a pet is normal; talking, drawing, a photo book or planting a tree can help, and other pets in the home may seem sad too. **Who acts:** Missing, other pets · **What happens:** miss, be, talk, draw, plant, help · **To what, where:** pet, photo book, tree This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (Missing, other pets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:18 # text = Missing a pet is normal; talking, drawing, a photo book or planting a tree can help, and other pets in the home may seem sad too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 planting plant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 29 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | gerund | | a pet | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Missing | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **draw** | gerund | | a photo book | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plant** | gerund | | a tree | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 6 | **help** | can | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **seem** | may | other pets in the home | | | | | sad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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