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title: Most animals do not like clothes, so a pet is dressed up only if it… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: Most animals do not like clothes, so a pet is dressed up only if it is calm, and you stop if it struggles. Who acts: Most animals, pet, you. 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 claus
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# A pet is a responsibility, sentence 17

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Most animals do not like clothes, so a pet is dressed up only if it is calm, and you stop if it struggles.

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**Who acts:** Most animals, pet, you · **What happens:** not like, dress up, be, stop, struggle · **To what, where:** clothes, pet

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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 (Most animals, pet, you), 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:17
# text = Most animals do not like clothes, so a pet is dressed up only if it is calm, and you stop if it struggles.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	struggles	struggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Most animals | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clothes=Theme |
| 2 | **dress up** | present · passive |  | a pet |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | pet |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **struggle** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:17`.

**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 ×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/).

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