--- title: More pets go missing around fireworks than at almost any other time,… — Lost pets, microchips, holidays and moving house · tree and pragmatics description: More pets go missing around fireworks than at almost any other time, because a dog's hearing is much sharper than ours; keeping pets inside with curtains closed and a den helps. Who acts: More pets, hearing, keeping, dog. 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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: who acts (More pets, hearing, keeping, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:15 # text = More pets go missing around fireworks than at almost any other time, because a dog's hearing is much sharper than ours; keeping pets inside with curtains closed and a den helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 fireworks firework NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 7 than than ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 sharper sharp ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advcl _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 csubj _ _ 26 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 inside inside ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | More pets | | | fireworks | time | missing *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around firework=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | present | a dog's hearing | | | | | than ours; sharp *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | pets | | | | with curtains and a den; inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | | 4 | **close** | participle | | curtains and a den *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **help** | present | keeping | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | | a dog | | | | | | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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. 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