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title: A pet that stops eating or acts strangely may be ill and should see… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet that stops eating or acts strangely may be ill and should see a vet. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for pets, sentence 16

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A pet that stops eating or acts strangely may be ill and should see a vet.

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**Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** stop, eat, act, be, see · **To what, where:** vet

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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:16
# text = A pet that stops eating or acts strangely may be ill and should see a vet.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	acts	act	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **stop** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | a pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** | present | a pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | may | a pet |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | should | a pet *not said here* | a vet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vet=Stimulus |

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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: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): no change. **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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