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title: If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some r… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some roosters attack to protect their hens. Who acts: rooster, roosters. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 17

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If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some roosters attack to protect their hens.

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**Who acts:** rooster, roosters · **What happens:** chase, walk away, tell, attack, protect · **To what, where:** you, owner, hens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» 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 (rooster, roosters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:17
# text = If a rooster chases you, walk away calmly and tell its owner; some roosters attack to protect their hens.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	roosters	rooster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **chase** | present | a rooster | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away, calmly *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | sun.'s owner |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
| 4 | **attack** | present | some roosters |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | some roosters *not said here* |  | animals's hens |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary |

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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): 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.

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