--- title: With small animals you always move slowly and speak softly. — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: With small animals you always move slowly and speak softly. Who acts: you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) / 8 # Kindness to animals, sentence 8 With small animals you always move slowly and speak softly. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** move, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you), 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:8 # text = With small animals you always move slowly and speak softly. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 softly softly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | you | | | | | with small animals; always, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:8`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kindness to animals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/7/) - next →: [Kindness to animals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)