--- title: If a family really cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home throug… — Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo · tree and pragmatics description: If a family really cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through an animal shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law. Who acts: family, Animals, abandoning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Animals, abandoning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:11 # text = If a family really cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through an animal shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 abandoning abandon VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a family | a pet | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | Animals *= animal* | a new home | pet | a animal shelter | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute | | 3 | **abandon** | gerund | | a pet | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source | | 4 | **is** | present | abandoning | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:11`. **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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