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title: A small pet is held gently and close to the body with both hands, lo… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A small pet is held gently and close to the body with both hands, low down, so it cannot fall. Who acts: pet. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kindness to animals, sentence 11

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A small pet is held gently and close to the body with both hands, low down, so it cannot fall.

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**Who acts:** pet · **What happens:** hold, not fall · **To what, where:** small pet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» 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 (pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:11
# text = A small pet is held gently and close to the body with both hands, low down, so it cannot fall.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 207-kindness-to-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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a small pet |  |  |  | with both hands; down, gently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fall** | can | pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.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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