--- title: You ask the owner before touching or feeding a friend's pet, because… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: You ask the owner before touching or feeding a friend's pet, because the owner knows how it behaves. Who acts: You, owner, pet. A sentence of the lesson «A pet is a responsibility» 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/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/11/) [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/) / [A pet is a responsibility](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/) / 11 # A pet is a responsibility, sentence 11 You ask the owner before touching or feeding a friend's pet, because the owner knows how it behaves. **Who acts:** You, owner, pet · **What happens:** ask, touch, feed, know, behave · **To what, where:** owner, pet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A pet is a responsibility» 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 (You, owner, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:065-a-pet-is-a-responsibility.lesson:11 # text = You ask the owner before touching or feeding a friend's pet, because the owner knows how it behaves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 065-a-pet-is-a-responsibility.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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 behaves behave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You | the owner | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | You *not said here* | | a friend's pet | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient | | 4 | **know** | present | the owner | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **behave** | present | pet | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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:065-a-pet-is-a-responsibility.lesson:11`. **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: [A pet is a responsibility, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/10/) - next →: [A pet is a responsibility, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/)