--- title: Wild animals are not pets: even a calm-looking bear, alligator, kang… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics description: Wild animals are not pets: even a calm-looking bear, alligator, kangaroo or fox can bite, scratch or charge if it feels cornered, surprised or protective of its young. Who acts: Wild animals, looking bear. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wild animals, looking bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:026-wild-animals.lesson:0 # text = Wild animals are not pets: even a calm-looking bear, alligator, kangaroo or fox can bite, scratch or charge if it feels cornered, surprised or protective of its young. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 026-wild-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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:mark 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj:pass 27 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 cornered corner VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 protective protective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Wild animals | pets | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **bite** | can | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **scratch** | infinitive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **charge** | infinitive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **corner** | present · passive | a looking bear and alligator and kangaroo or fox *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:026-wild-animals.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/21/) - next →: [Wild animals: keep away, never feed, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/)