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title: After a pet dies, the family waits until it is ready before getting… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: After a pet dies, the family waits until it is ready before getting a new one, because a new pet does not replace the old one. Who acts: pet, family, new pet. 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 16

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After a pet dies, the family waits until it is ready before getting a new one, because a new pet does not replace the old one.

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**Who acts:** pet, family, new pet · **What happens:** die, wait, be, get, not replace · **To what, where:** new one, old one

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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 (pet, family, new pet), 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:16
# text = After a pet dies, the family waits until it is ready before getting a new one, because a new pet does not replace the old one.
# 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	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound
8	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **die** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **wait** | present | the family |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | pet |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | pet *not said here* | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | a new pet | the old one |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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:205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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