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title: Small pets left in unsecured runs can be caught by foxes, cats, dogs… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: Small pets left in unsecured runs can be caught by foxes, cats, dogs or birds. Who acts: foxes. 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 22

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Small pets left in unsecured runs can be caught by foxes, cats, dogs or birds.

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**Who acts:** foxes · **What happens:** leave, catch · **To what, where:** Small pets, unsecured runs

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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 (foxes), 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:22
# text = Small pets left in unsecured runs can be caught by foxes, cats, dogs or birds.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	unsecured	unsecured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	runs	run	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **leave** | participle |  | Small pets *not said here* |  |  |  | in unsecured runs *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in run=Result |
| 2 | **catch** | can · passive | foxes and cats and dogs or birds | Small pets |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:22`.

**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): R6-punct-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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