--- title: If a family truly cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: If a family truly cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through a shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law in many countries. Who acts: family, owners, abandoning. 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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, owners, abandoning), 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:13 # text = If a family truly cannot keep a pet, they find it a new home through a shelter; abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law in many countries. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 truly truly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 21 abandoning abandon VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | a family | a pet | | | | truly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | owners *= owner* | pet | | a shelter | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme home=Attribute | | 3 | **abandon** | gerund | | a pet | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme pet=Source | | 4 | **is** | present | abandoning | | | | | cruel *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:065-a-pet-is-a-responsibility.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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: [A pet is a responsibility, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/11/) - next →: [A pet is a responsibility, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/)