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title: In many monkeys a long stare or showing your teeth is a threat, not… — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coy… · tree and pragmatics
description: In many monkeys a long stare or showing your teeth is a threat, not a smile, so the safe rule is no staring, no feeding, no touching, and walk calmly away; a monkey bite needs a doctor. Who acts: long stare, safe rule, monkey bite. A sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, dee
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# Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 12

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In many monkeys a long stare or showing your teeth is a threat, not a smile, so the safe rule is no staring, no feeding, no touching, and walk calmly away; a monkey bite needs a doctor.

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**Who acts:** long stare, safe rule, monkey bite · **What happens:** show, be, walk, need · **To what, where:** teeth, threat, staring, doctor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (long stare, safe rule, monkey bite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:12
# text = In many monkeys a long stare or showing your teeth is a threat, not a smile, so the safe rule is no staring, no feeding, no touching, and walk calmly away; a monkey bite needs a doctor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	threat	threat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	staring	staring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	touching	touching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
35	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **show** | gerund | a long stare *not said here* | your teeth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a long stare | a threat and a smile |  |  |  | in many monkeys | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the safe rule | no staring and no feeding and no touching |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | infinitive | the safe rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | present | a monkey bite | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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