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title: Many animals, even fish and guinea pigs, learn to recognise the pers… — The pet that loves you most · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animals, even fish and guinea pigs, learn to recognise the person who feeds them. Who acts: Many animals, person. A sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The pet that loves you most, sentence 27

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Many animals, even fish and guinea pigs, learn to recognise the person who feeds them.

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**Who acts:** Many animals, person · **What happens:** learn, recognise, feed · **To what, where:** person, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The pet that loves you most» 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 (Many animals, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:27
# text = Many animals, even fish and guinea pigs, learn to recognise the person who feeds them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | Many animals  fish and guinea pigs |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | Many animals  fish and guinea pigs *not said here* | the person |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feed** | present | the person | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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:460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most.lesson:27`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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