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title: A new pet does not replace the old one, and it is wise to wait and t… — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: A new pet does not replace the old one, and it is wise to wait and talk it over first. Who acts: new pet. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 12

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A new pet does not replace the old one, and it is wise to wait and talk it over first.

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**Who acts:** new pet · **What happens:** not replace, be, wait, talk over · **To what, where:** old one, sadness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:12
# text = A new pet does not replace the old one, and it is wise to wait and talk it over first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 097-moving-change-and-grief.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
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	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **replace** | present · do-support | a new pet | the old one |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a new pet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **talk over** | infinitive |  | sadness |  |  |  | first *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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