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title: Animals often hide pain and illness, so changes in eating, sleeping… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals often hide pain and illness, so changes in eating, sleeping or hiding can be warning signs. Who acts: Animals, changes. 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 clause.
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# How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 20

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Animals often hide pain and illness, so changes in eating, sleeping or hiding can be warning signs.

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**Who acts:** Animals, changes · **What happens:** hide, be · **To what, where:** pain, warning signs

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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 (Animals, changes), 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:20
# text = Animals often hide pain and illness, so changes in eating, sleeping or hiding can be warning signs.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
9	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	warning	warn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Animals | pain and illness |  |  |  | often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | changes in eating and sleeping *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | can | changes in eating and sleeping | warning signs |  |  |  |  | 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:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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