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title: A pet depends on you for everything it needs: the right food, fresh… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet depends on you for everything it needs: the right food, fresh clean water every day, a clean place to live, exercise, company and gentle handling. Who acts: pet. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Caring for pets, sentence 0

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A pet depends on you for everything it needs: the right food, fresh clean water every day, a clean place to live, exercise, company and gentle handling.

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**Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** depend, need, live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:0
# text = A pet depends on you for everything it needs: the right food, fresh clean water every day, a clean place to live, exercise, company and gentle handling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 027-caring-for-pets.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	handling	handling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **depend** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  | on you; for everything | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on you=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | a pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:0`.

**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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