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title: Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner. Who acts: roosters, you. 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 every clause.
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# Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 6

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Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.

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**Who acts:** roosters, you · **What happens:** attack, protect, walk away, tell · **To what, where:** people, hens, owner · **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 (roosters, you), 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:6
# text = Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	roosters	rooster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **attack** | present | some roosters | people |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | some roosters *not said here* |  | people's hens |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **walk away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away, calmly *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |

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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:6`.

**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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