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title: A pet depends on you, so a chore like feeding it must be done every… — Responsibility, independence and curiosity · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet depends on you, so a chore like feeding it must be done every day, without being reminded. Who acts: pet, chore. A sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 4

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A pet depends on you, so a chore like feeding it must be done every day, without being reminded.

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**Who acts:** pet, chore · **What happens:** depend, feed, do, remind · **To what, where:** chore

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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 (pet, chore), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:4
# text = A pet depends on you, so a chore like feeding it must be done every day, without being reminded.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.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	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chore	chore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	reminded	remind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **depend** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  | on you | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on you=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund | a chore *not said here* | chore |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | must · passive |  | a chore |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient» |

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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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**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:everyday:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:4`.

**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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