--- title: A pet is a responsibility for life: you learn about the animal befor… — Pet care, food and responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: A pet is a responsibility for life: you learn about the animal before choosing it, introduce newcomers slowly, and never abandon it. Who acts: pet, you. 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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 (pet, you), 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:4 # text = A pet is a responsibility for life: you learn about the animal before choosing it, introduce newcomers slowly, and never abandon it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 responsibility responsibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 before before SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 introduce introduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 19 newcomers newcomer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 abandon abandon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a pet | a responsibility | | | | for life | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | present | you | | | | | about the animal | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about animal=Topic | | 3 | **choose** | gerund | you *not said here* | pet | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **introduce** | infinitive | a pet *not said here* | newcomers | | | | slowly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newcomer=Patient | | 5 | **not** **abandon** | present | a pet *not said here* | pet | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme it=Source | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/3/) - next →: [Pet care, food and responsibility, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/)