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title: A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company and fair play every single day, even when you are tired of looking after it. Who acts: pet, it, you. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 0

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A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company and fair play every single day, even when you are tired of looking after it.

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**Who acts:** pet, it, you · **What happens:** not be, depend, be, look · **To what, where:** toy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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, it, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:0
# text = A pet is not a toy: it depends on you for food, shade, calm company and fair play every single day, even when you are tired of looking after it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a pet | a toy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | present | it |  |  |  | day | on you; for food and shade and calm company and fair play | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after pet |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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): 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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