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title: Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times. Who acts: you, fire ants. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 12

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Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times.

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**Who acts:** you, fire ants · **What happens:** keep away, not sit, sting · **To what, where:** ant hills

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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, fire ants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:12
# text = Keep away from ant hills and never sit on them, because fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia sting many times.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	.	.	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 away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | ant hills |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from hill=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on hills *= hill* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location |
| 3 | **sting** | present | fire ants in parts of the USA and Australia |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:12`.

**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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