--- title: Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law; if a family really ca… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law; if a family really cannot keep it, a shelter helps find it a new home. Who acts: Abandoning, family, shelter. 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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 (Abandoning, family, shelter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:12 # text = Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law; if a family really cannot keep it, a shelter helps find it a new home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Abandoning abandon 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 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **abandon** | gerund | | a pet | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source | | 2 | **is** | present | Abandoning | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a family | pet | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | a shelter | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | a shelter *not said here* | pet | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute | 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:everyday:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:12`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/11/) - next →: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/)