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title: Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law. — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law. Who acts: Abandoning. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 14

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Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law.

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**Who acts:** Abandoning · **What happens:** abandon, be · **To what, where:** pet

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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 (Abandoning), 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:14
# text = Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Abandoning	abandon	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	.	.	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 | **abandon** | gerund |  | a pet |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | Abandoning |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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