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title: If a wasp or bee comes near, you stay calm and move away slowly with… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: If a wasp or bee comes near, you stay calm and move away slowly without swatting, because swatting makes stings more likely. Who acts: wasp, you, swatting. A sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 16

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If a wasp or bee comes near, you stay calm and move away slowly without swatting, because swatting makes stings more likely.

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**Who acts:** wasp, you, swatting · **What happens:** come, stay, move away, swat, make · **To what, where:** stings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (wasp, you, swatting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:16
# text = If a wasp or bee comes near, you stay calm and move away slowly without swatting, because swatting makes stings more likely.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	swatting	swat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	swatting	swat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
22	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a wasp or bee |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **swat** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | present | swatting | stings |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sting=Product |

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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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:16`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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