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title: Raccoons in North America can bite and carry rabies, so you keep awa… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: Raccoons in North America can bite and carry rabies, so you keep away from them and keep bins closed. Who acts: Raccoons, you, bins. A sentence of the lesson «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 11

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Raccoons in North America can bite and carry rabies, so you keep away from them and keep bins closed.

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**Who acts:** Raccoons, you, bins · **What happens:** bite, carry, keep away, keep, close · **To what, where:** rabies, bins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday 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 (Raccoons, you, bins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:11
# text = Raccoons in North America can bite and carry rabies, so you keep away from them and keep bins closed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bite** | can | Raccoons in North America |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | infinitive | Raccoons in North America *not said here* | rabies |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Theme |
| 3 | **keep away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | present | you *not said here* | bins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **close** | participle | bins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:11`.

**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, 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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