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title: Because people hardly ever hunted them, the animals are not afraid:… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because people hardly ever hunted them, the animals are not afraid: a sea lion may nap on a park bench while you walk past, like a neighbour's cat that does not bother to move. Who acts: people, animals, sea lion, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's f
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 2

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Because people hardly ever hunted them, the animals are not afraid: a sea lion may nap on a park bench while you walk past, like a neighbour's cat that does not bother to move.

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**Who acts:** people, animals, sea lion, you, cat · **What happens:** hunt, not be, nap, walk, not bother, not move · **To what, where:** lizard, park bench

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology 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 (people, animals, sea lion, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:2
# text = Because people hardly ever hunted them, the animals are not afraid: a sea lion may nap on a park bench while you walk past, like a neighbour's cat that does not bother to move.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	nap	nap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	past	past	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **hunt** | participle | people | lizard |  |  | ever | hardly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the animals |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **nap** | may | a sea lion |  |  | a park bench |  | like a neighbour's cat | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **walk** | present | you |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **bother** | present · do-support | a neighbour's cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **move** | to-infinitive | a neighbour's cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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