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title: If you find an injured wild bird, tell an adult who can call a wildl… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: If you find an injured wild bird, tell an adult who can call a wildlife rescue, because wild animals need special care. Who acts: you, adult, wild animals. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Kindness to wild animals, sentence 12

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If you find an injured wild bird, tell an adult who can call a wildlife rescue, because wild animals need special care.

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**Who acts:** you, adult, wild animals · **What happens:** find, injure, tell, call, need · **To what, where:** injured wild bird, adult, wildlife rescue, special care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, adult, wild animals), 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:12
# text = If you find an injured wild bird, tell an adult who can call a wildlife rescue, because wild animals need special care.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
23	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a injured wild bird |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **injure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | can | a adult | a wildlife rescue |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescue=Recipient |
| 5 | **need** | present | wild animals | special care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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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**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: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, R8-pos-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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