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title: A pet can snap if a toddler pulls it, so a dog and a toddler togethe… — Bedroom, living room and manners at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet can snap if a toddler pulls it, so a dog and a toddler together are watched. Who acts: pet, toddler. A sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bedroom, living room and manners at home, sentence 8

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A pet can snap if a toddler pulls it, so a dog and a toddler together are watched.

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**Who acts:** pet, toddler · **What happens:** snap, pull, watch · **To what, where:** bed, dog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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, toddler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:8
# text = A pet can snap if a toddler pulls it, so a dog and a toddler together are watched.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **snap** | can | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **pull** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a toddler | bed |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | present · passive |  | a dog and a toddler |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners.lesson:8`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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