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title: In play, a pet should catch the toy sometimes, because always losing… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: In play, a pet should catch the toy sometimes, because always losing makes animals stressed or snappy. Who acts: pet, losing. 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 16

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In play, a pet should catch the toy sometimes, because always losing makes animals stressed or snappy.

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**Who acts:** pet, losing · **What happens:** catch, lose, make · **To what, where:** toy, play, animals

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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 (pet, losing), 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:16
# text = In play, a pet should catch the toy sometimes, because always losing makes animals stressed or snappy.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	stressed	stress	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	snappy	snappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **catch** | should | a pet | the toy |  | play |  | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | losing | animals |  |  |  | stress *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product |

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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:16`.

**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/).

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