--- title: An overweight pet gets ill more often and lives a shorter life, so i… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: An overweight pet gets ill more often and lives a shorter life, so it needs fewer treats and more play. Who acts: overweight pet, pet. 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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 (overweight pet, pet), 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:23 # text = An overweight pet gets ill more often and lives a shorter life, so it needs fewer treats and more play. # 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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 overweight overweight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | a overweight pet | | | | | ill, often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **live** | present | a overweight pet *not said here* | a shorter life | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 3 | **need** | present | pet | fewer treats and more play | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treat=Theme | 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:23`. **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, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/22/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)