--- title: A family in Ohio got a puppy for Christmas, but nobody walked or tra… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Ohio got a puppy for Christmas, but nobody walked or trained it; it chewed the house, grew bored and anxious, and had to go to a rescue home. Who acts: family, nobody. 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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 (family, nobody), 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:6 # text = A family in Ohio got a puppy for Christmas, but nobody walked or trained it; it chewed the house, grew bored and anxious, and had to go to a rescue home. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 trained train VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 chewed chew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | a family in Ohio | a puppy | | | | for Christmas | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme for christmas=Beneficiary | | 2 | **walk** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **train** | past | nobody *not said here* | family | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **chew** | past | family | the house | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | past | family *not said here* | | | | | bored *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | family *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | family *not said here* | | | a rescue home | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [A pet is a responsibility, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/5/) - next →: [A pet is a responsibility, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/65-a-pet-is-a-responsibility/)