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title: Farm animals are big, strong and easily frightened, and most are pre… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: Farm animals are big, strong and easily frightened, and most are prey animals whose first idea when scared is to run, kick or push. Who acts: Farm animals, most. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Farm animals and horses, sentence 0

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Farm animals are big, strong and easily frightened, and most are prey animals whose first idea when scared is to run, kick or push.

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**Who acts:** Farm animals, most · **What happens:** be, run, kick, push · **To what, where:** prey animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» 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 (Farm animals, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:0
# text = Farm animals are big, strong and easily frightened, and most are prey animals whose first idea when scared is to run, kick or push.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 028-farm-animals-and-horses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:PronType=Ind
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Farm animals |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Farm animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Farm animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | most | prey animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **kick** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **push** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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**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:028-farm-animals-and-horses.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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