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title: A pet is a responsibility for its whole life; if a family truly cann… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet is a responsibility for its whole life; if a family truly cannot keep it, they find it a new home through a shelter. Who acts: pet, family, animals. 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 wit
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 13

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A pet is a responsibility for its whole life; if a family truly cannot keep it, they find it a new home through a shelter.

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**Who acts:** pet, family, animals · **What happens:** be, not keep, find · **To what, where:** responsibility, pet, new home, shelter

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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, family, animals), 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:13
# text = A pet is a responsibility for its whole life; if a family truly cannot keep it, they find it a new home through a shelter.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a pet | a responsibility |  |  |  | for pet's whole life | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a family | pet |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | animals *= animal* | a new home | pet | a shelter |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute |

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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:13`.

**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): 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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