--- title: First his family talks about who will feed it, keep its lamp on and… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics description: First his family talks about who will feed it, keep its lamp on and clean it every day for many years, and they learn what it needs before they choose one from a good place. Who acts: family, lamp, dragon. 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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 (family, lamp, dragon), 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:5 # text = First his family talks about who will feed it, keep its lamp on and clean it every day for many years, and they learn what it needs before they choose one from a good place. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | boy's family | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | future | | dragon | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **keep on** | infinitive | | dragon's lamp | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | | 4 | **clean** | infinitive | | dragon | | | day; year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **learn** | present | lamp | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **need** | present | dragon | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 7 | **choose** | present | lamp | one | | a good place | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from place=Source | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/4/) - next →: [Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/)