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title: If you meet a bear, you stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly a… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: If you meet a bear, you stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make it chase you. Who acts: you, bear. 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 th
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# Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 12

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If you meet a bear, you stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make it chase you.

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**Who acts:** you, bear · **What happens:** meet, stay, not run, speak, run, make · **To what, where:** bear, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, bear), 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:12
# text = If you meet a bear, you stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make it chase you.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
17	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a bear |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with adults | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location |
| 3 | **not** **run** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | can |  | bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **chase** | infinitive | bear *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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, R6-punct-agree ×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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