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title: Keep far away from seals and sea lions resting on the beach and keep… — Safe at lakes and beaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep far away from seals and sea lions resting on the beach and keep dogs on a lead, because they can bite. Who acts: you, seals, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 21

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Keep far away from seals and sea lions resting on the beach and keep dogs on a lead, because they can bite.

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**Who acts:** you, seals, dogs · **What happens:** keep, rest, bite · **To what, where:** seals, beach, dogs, lead

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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, seals, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:21
# text = Keep far away from seals and sea lions resting on the beach and keep dogs on a lead, because they can bite.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 232-lakes-and-beaches.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 ×2
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | seals and sea lions |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from seal=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | seals and sea lions *not said here* |  |  | the beach |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | dogs |  | a lead |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location |
| 4 | **bite** | can | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:21`.

**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 ×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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