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title: On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place a… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place and extra bedding. Who acts: small animals. 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 19

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On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place and extra bedding.

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**Who acts:** small animals · **What happens:** need, shelter · **To what, where:** sheltered place

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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 (small animals), 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:19
# text = On freezing nights small animals in hutches need a sheltered place and extra bedding.
# 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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hutches	hutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bedding	bedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **need** | present | small animals in hutches | a sheltered place and extra bedding |  |  | night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme |
| 2 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:19`.

**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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