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title: Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and resc… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and rescue centres and pet shops can take unwanted pets back. Who acts: Pets, pests, rescue centres. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 20

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Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and rescue centres and pet shops can take unwanted pets back.

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**Who acts:** Pets, pests, rescue centres · **What happens:** let, go, die, become, harm, take back · **To what, where:** Pets, pests, wild animals, unwanted pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (Pets, pests, rescue centres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:20
# text = Pets let go can die or become pests that harm wild animals, and rescue centres and pet shops can take unwanted pets back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	harm	harm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	centres	centre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **let** | participle |  | Pets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | Pets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | can | Pets |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive | Pets *not said here* | pests |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient pest=Result |
| 5 | **harm** | present | pests | wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 6 | **take back** | can | rescue centres and pet shops |  | unwanted pets |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pet=Destination |

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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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