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title: A pet needs food, water, care, exercise and time every day: it is a… — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A pet needs food, water, care, exercise and time every day: it is a responsibility, not a toy. Who acts: pet. A sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals, sentence 8

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A pet needs food, water, care, exercise and time every day: it is a responsibility, not a toy.

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**Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** need, be · **To what, where:** food, responsibility

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics 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 (pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:8
# text = A pet needs food, water, care, exercise and time every day: it is a responsibility, not a toy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 046-animals.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:unmarked
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 pet | food and water and care and exercise and time |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | pet | a responsibility and a toy |  |  |  |  | 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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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