--- title: She gives it a quiet corner and a few days to settle before lots of… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: She gives it a quiet corner and a few days to settle before lots of cuddles, and when the family's dog meets it, an adult is always watching. Who acts: girl, dog, adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, dog, adult), 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:5 # text = She gives it a quiet corner and a few days to settle before lots of cuddles, and when the family's dog meets it, an adult is always watching. # 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 ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cuddles cuddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | girl | a quiet corner and a few days | kitten | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient corner=Theme | | 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | a quiet corner and a few days *not said here* | | | before lots of cuddles | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** | present | the family's dog | kitten | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 4 | **watch** | present · progressive | a adult | | | | | always *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:5`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [A pet is a responsibility, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/4/) - next →: [A pet is a responsibility, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/)