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title: Looking after a dog or a rabbit means knowing what its body needs an… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking after a dog or a rabbit means knowing what its body needs and what can hurt it, and telling an adult quickly when something is wrong. Who acts: Looking, body, something. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 0

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Looking after a dog or a rabbit means knowing what its body needs and what can hurt it, and telling an adult quickly when something is wrong.

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**Who acts:** Looking, body, something · **What happens:** look, mean, know, need, hurt, tell · **To what, where:** body, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 (Looking, body, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:0
# text = Looking after a dog or a rabbit means knowing what its body needs and what can hurt it, and telling an adult quickly when something is wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
26	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after a dog or a rabbit |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Looking |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **need** | present | rabbit's body |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **hurt** | can |  | body |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *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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**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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