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title: Always close farm gates behind you so animals cannot escape. — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: Always close farm gates behind you so animals cannot escape. Who acts: you, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farm animals and horses, sentence 15

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Always close farm gates behind you so animals cannot escape.

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**Who acts:** you, animals · **What happens:** close, not escape · **To what, where:** farm gates

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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 (you, animals), 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:15
# text = Always close farm gates behind you so animals cannot escape.
# 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): no change
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	_	4	compound	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | farm gates |  |  |  | behind you; always *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | can | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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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