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title: Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly nearby, feeding, and the kindest thing is to walk quietly away. Who acts: family, mother, kindest thing. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animal
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# Kindness to wild animals, sentence 0

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Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly nearby, feeding, and the kindest thing is to walk quietly away.

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**Who acts:** family, mother, kindest thing · **What happens:** walk, find, curl up, want, rescue, be · **To what, where:** meadow, baby deer, long grass, deer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (family, mother, kindest thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:0
# text = Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly nearby, feeding, and the kindest thing is to walk quietly away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
42	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **walk** | gerund | a family *not said here* |  |  | a meadow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | present | a family | a baby deer |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Topic |
| 3 | **curl up** | participle |  | a baby deer *not said here* |  | the long grass |  | alone *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | present | a family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **rescue** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a family *not said here* | deer |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | family's mother |  |  |  |  | certainly, nearby *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **feed** | gerund | family's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | the kindest thing |  |  |  |  | away, quietly, walk *property* | 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:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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 ×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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