--- title: A pet is not a toy for a birthday: it lives for years and needs food… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: A pet is not a toy for a birthday: it lives for years and needs food, cleaning and company every single day, so a family thinks hard and learns about the animal before getting one. Who acts: pet, family. 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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 (pet, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:0 # text = A pet is not a toy for a birthday: it lives for years and needs food, cleaning and company every single day, so a family thinks hard and learns about the animal before getting one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 23 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a pet | a toy | | | | for a birthday | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | pet | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | pet *not said here* | food and cleaning and company | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | a family | | | | | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **learn** | present | a family *not said here* | | | | | about the animal | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about animal=Topic | | 6 | **get** | gerund | a family *not said here* | one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | 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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/63-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish/22/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)