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title: Ask the owner before you touch someone else's pet. — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask the owner before you touch someone else's pet. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being gentle with small animals, sentence 17

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Ask the owner before you touch someone else's pet.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, touch · **To what, where:** owner, pet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:17
# text = Ask the owner before you touch someone else's pet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.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	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
| 2 | **touch** | present | you | someone's pet |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pet=Co-Theme |

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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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**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.

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