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title: Teasing an animal is unkind and can teach it to bite or scratch. — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing an animal is unkind and can teach it to bite or scratch. Who acts: Teasing. 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 17

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Teasing an animal is unkind and can teach it to bite or scratch.

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**Who acts:** Teasing · **What happens:** tease, be, teach, bite, scratch · **To what, where:** animal

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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 (Teasing), 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:17
# text = Teasing an animal is unkind and can teach it to bite or scratch.
# 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	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tease** | gerund |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Teasing |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | can | Teasing *not said here* |  | animal |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | Teasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scratch** | infinitive | Teasing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:17`.

**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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