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title: Bored animals can become unhappy and destructive, so they need toys,… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Bored animals can become unhappy and destructive, so they need toys, play, walks and new things to sniff. Who acts: Bored animals, Pets. A sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 13

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Bored animals can become unhappy and destructive, so they need toys, play, walks and new things to sniff.

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**Who acts:** Bored animals, Pets · **What happens:** become, need, sniff · **To what, where:** toys

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» 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 (Bored animals, Pets), 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:13
# text = Bored animals can become unhappy and destructive, so they need toys, play, walks and new things to sniff.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | can | Bored animals |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | Pets *= pet* | toys and play and walks and new things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toy=Theme |
| 3 | **sniff** | to-infinitive | Pets *= pet* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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