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title: Two wild animals live right next to us in parks and gardens, and bot… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics
description: Two wild animals live right next to us in parks and gardens, and both are cleverer than they look. Who acts: Two wild animals, both, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Foxes and squirrels, sentence 0

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Two wild animals live right next to us in parks and gardens, and both are cleverer than they look.

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**Who acts:** Two wild animals, both, animals · **What happens:** live, be, look · **To what, where:** us, parks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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 (Two wild animals, both, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:0
# text = Two wild animals live right next to us in parks and gardens, and both are cleverer than they look.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 215-foxes-and-squirrels.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): R5-strong ×2
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
6	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **live** | present | Two wild animals |  | us | parks and gardens |  | next *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in park=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×2. **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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