--- title: A pet is best got from a rescue centre or a good breeder, after lear… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: A pet is best got from a rescue centre or a good breeder, after learning about it; animals sold cheaply by strangers, from vans or markets, are often ill. Who acts: good breeder, animals. 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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 (good breeder, animals), 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:21 # text = A pet is best got from a rescue centre or a good breeder, after learning about it; animals sold cheaply by strangers, from vans or markets, are often ill. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 breeder breeder NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 21 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 cheaply cheaply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 vans van NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 markets market NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present · passive | | a pet | | a rescue centre or a good breeder | | well *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from centre=Source | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | a good breeder *not said here* | | | | | about pet | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 3 | **sell** | participle | | animals *not said here* | | | | by strangers and vans or markets; cheaply *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | animals | | | | | ill, often *property* | tree rules | 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:21`. **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/). - ← previous: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/20/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)