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title: At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never cli… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never climb fences; zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous. Who acts: you, zoo animals. 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
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 20

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At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never climb fences; zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous.

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**Who acts:** you, zoo animals · **What happens:** follow, stay, not climb, be · **To what, where:** signs, zoo, barriers, fences

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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 (you, zoo animals), 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:20
# text = At the zoo, follow the signs, stay behind the barriers and never climb fences; zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the signs |  | the zoo |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sign=Theme at zoo=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the barriers |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location |
| 3 | **not** **climb** | infinitive | you *not said here* | fences |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fence=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | zoo animals |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | can | zoo animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dangerous *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:287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely.lesson:20`.

**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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