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title: Pets need a vet for check-ups, vaccinations and whenever they seem i… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Pets need a vet for check-ups, vaccinations and whenever they seem ill, hurt, stop eating or act strangely. Who acts: Pets, lilies. 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 3

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Pets need a vet for check-ups, vaccinations and whenever they seem ill, hurt, stop eating or act strangely.

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**Who acts:** Pets, lilies · **What happens:** need, seem, stop, eat, act · **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 (Pets, lilies), 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:3
# text = Pets need a vet for check-ups, vaccinations and whenever they seem ill, hurt, stop eating or act strangely.
# 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	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	vaccinations	vaccination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **need** | present | Pets | a vet |  |  |  | for check ups and vaccinations | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vet=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | lilies *= lily* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | lilies *= lily* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | lilies *= lily* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **act** | infinitive | lilies *= lily* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «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:3`.

**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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