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title: Do not feed or touch squirrels and other wild animals, because they… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not feed or touch squirrels and other wild animals, because they can bite and people food is bad for them. Who acts: you, squirrels, people food. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 9

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Do not feed or touch squirrels and other wild animals, because they can bite and people food is bad for them.

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**Who acts:** you, squirrels, people food · **What happens:** not feed, touch, bite, be · **To what, where:** squirrels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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, squirrels, people food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:9
# text = Do not feed or touch squirrels and other wild animals, because they can bite and people food is bad for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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): no change
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **feed** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | squirrels and other wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme squirrel=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **bite** | can | squirrels *= squirrel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | people food |  |  |  |  | for squirrels *= squirrel*; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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