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title: A mother animal protecting her babies is especially dangerous. — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics
description: A mother animal protecting her babies is especially dangerous. Who acts: mother animal. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 9

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A mother animal protecting her babies is especially dangerous.

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**Who acts:** mother animal · **What happens:** protect, be · **To what, where:** babies

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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 (mother animal), 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:9
# text = A mother animal protecting her babies is especially dangerous.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | gerund | a mother animal *not said here* | alligator's babies |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present | a mother animal |  |  |  |  | dangerous, especially *property* | tree rules |

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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:026-wild-animals.lesson:9`.

**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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