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title: In bear country such as Alaska, Canada and Colorado, hikers stay in… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics
description: In bear country such as Alaska, Canada and Colorado, hikers stay in groups, talk or make noise so bears hear them coming, keep food locked away, and never run from a bear, but back away slowly while talking calmly. Who acts: hikers, bears, food. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, nev
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# Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 2

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In bear country such as Alaska, Canada and Colorado, hikers stay in groups, talk or make noise so bears hear them coming, keep food locked away, and never run from a bear, but back away slowly while talking calmly.

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**Who acts:** hikers, bears, food · **What happens:** stay, talk, make, hear, come, keep · **To what, where:** bear country, noise, hikers, bear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» 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 (hikers, bears, food), 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:2
# text = In bear country such as Alaska, Canada and Colorado, hikers stay in groups, talk or make noise so bears hear them coming, keep food locked away, and never run from a bear, but back away slowly while talking calmly.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	hikers	hiker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
42	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
45	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41: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 | **stay** | present | hikers |  |  | bear country such Alaska and Canada and Colorado |  | in groups | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | present | hikers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | hikers *not said here* | noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | bears | hikers *= hiker* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | hikers *= hiker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive | bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lock away** | participle | food |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **run** | present |  |  |  | a bear |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bear=Trajectory |
| 9 | **talk** | gerund | hikers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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