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title: When a new baby or a new pet joins the family, introduce the animal… — Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: When a new baby or a new pet joins the family, introduce the animal slowly and always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared of newcomers. Who acts: new baby, you, adult, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» of the everyday c
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# Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 9

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When a new baby or a new pet joins the family, introduce the animal slowly and always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared of newcomers.

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**Who acts:** new baby, you, adult, animals · **What happens:** join, introduce, watch, feel · **To what, where:** family, animal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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 (new baby, you, adult, animals), 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:9
# text = When a new baby or a new pet joins the family, introduce the animal slowly and always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared of newcomers.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
28	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **join** | present | a new baby or a new pet | the family |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient |
| 2 | **introduce** | imperative | you *not said here* | the animal |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | can | animals |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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