--- title: A pet lives for years and needs care every day, so a family agrees w… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: A pet lives for years and needs care every day, so a family agrees who will do each job before getting one. Who acts: pet, family. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/) / 17 # Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 17 A pet lives for years and needs care every day, so a family agrees who will do each job before getting one. **Who acts:** pet, family · **What happens:** live, need, agree, do, get · **To what, where:** care, job, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (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:17 # text = A pet lives for years and needs care every day, so a family agrees who will do each job 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 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **live** | present | a pet | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | a pet *not said here* | care | | | day | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | a family | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | future | | each job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | 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:17`. **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: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/16/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)