--- title: A pet that suddenly snaps when it used to be friendly is often in pa… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: A pet that suddenly snaps when it used to be friendly is often in pain, so you stop touching it and tell an adult. Who acts: pet, animal, you. 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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 (pet, animal, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:10 # text = A pet that suddenly snaps when it used to be friendly is often in pain, so you stop touching it and tell an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.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 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snap** | present | a pet | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **use** | past | animal | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | animal *not said here* | | | | | friendly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | present | a pet | | | pain | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=Location | | 5 | **stop** | present | you | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:10`. **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: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/9/) - next →: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/)