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title: A family in Texas left their dog in the car for ten minutes on a war… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Texas left their dog in the car for ten minutes on a warm day; the car heated up like an oven, and the dog collapsed from the heat. Who acts: family, car, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Caring for pets, sentence 5

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A family in Texas left their dog in the car for ten minutes on a warm day; the car heated up like an oven, and the dog collapsed from the heat.

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**Who acts:** family, car, dog · **What happens:** leave, heat up, collapse · **To what, where:** dog, car, heat

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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 (family, car, dog), 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:5
# text = A family in Texas left their dog in the car for ten minutes on a warm day; the car heated up like an oven, and the dog collapsed from the heat.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heated	heat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **leave** | past | a family in Texas | lilies's dog |  | the car | day; minute |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in car=Location |
| 2 | **heat up** | past | the car |  |  |  |  | like a oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **collapse** | past | the dog |  |  | the heat |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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