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title: An adult gives the flea and worm treatment the vet suggests, to keep… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult gives the flea and worm treatment the vet suggests, to keep pets and the family free of parasites. Who acts: adult, vet. 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.
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# A pet is a responsibility, sentence 15

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An adult gives the flea and worm treatment the vet suggests, to keep pets and the family free of parasites.

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**Who acts:** adult, vet · **What happens:** give, suggest, keep · **To what, where:** flea, worm treatment, pets

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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 (adult, vet), 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:15
# text = An adult gives the flea and worm treatment the vet suggests, to keep pets and the family free of parasites.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
5	flea	flea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
15	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	parasites	parasite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a adult | flea and the worm treatment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flea=Theme |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | the vet | the worm treatment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent treatment=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | pets and the family |  |  |  | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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 ×3. **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/).

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