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title: A new pet needs a quiet place and a few days to settle, because movi… — A pet is a responsibility · tree and pragmatics
description: A new pet needs a quiet place and a few days to settle, because moving house is scary for animals. Who acts: new pet, moving. 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 9

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A new pet needs a quiet place and a few days to settle, because moving house is scary for animals.

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**Who acts:** new pet, moving · **What happens:** need, settle, move, be · **To what, where:** quiet place, house

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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 (new pet, moving), 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:9
# text = A new pet needs a quiet place and a few days to settle, because moving house is scary for animals.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | a new pet | a quiet place and a few days |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive | a new pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  | house |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | moving |  |  |  |  | for animals; scary *property* | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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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