--- title: A pet that scratches all the time may have fleas, tiny jumping bugs… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: A pet that scratches all the time may have fleas, tiny jumping bugs that leave dark specks in the fur and can bite people too. Who acts: pet, tiny jumping bugs. 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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 (pet, tiny jumping bugs), 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:14 # text = A pet that scratches all the time may have fleas, tiny jumping bugs that leave dark specks in the fur and can bite people too. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 specks speck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | present | a pet | | | | time | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | may | a pet | fleas and tiny jumping bugs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Patient | | 3 | **jump** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | present | tiny jumping bugs | dark specks | | the fur | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent speck=Theme in fur=Location | | 5 | **bite** | can | tiny jumping bugs *not said here* | people | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | 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:14`. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/13/) - next →: [A pet is a responsibility, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/)