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title: In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy. Who acts: you, pet, play, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Pet care, food and responsibility, sentence 13

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In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.

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**Who acts:** you, pet, play, animals · **What happens:** let, catch, end, make, stress · **To what, where:** pet, play, toy, frustration, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pet care, food and responsibility» 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 (you, pet, play, animals), 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:13
# text = In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	frustration	frustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	snappy	snappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pet |  | play |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | infinitive | a pet *not said here* | the toy |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | present | play |  |  | frustration |  | always *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | present | play | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stress** | participle | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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