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title: A rooster may attack to guard his hens, and a bear may chase someone… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rooster may attack to guard his hens, and a bear may chase someone who runs, so we stay calm, move away slowly and keep behind barriers. Who acts: rooster, bear, we. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 4

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A rooster may attack to guard his hens, and a bear may chase someone who runs, so we stay calm, move away slowly and keep behind barriers.

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**Who acts:** rooster, bear, we · **What happens:** attack, guard, chase, run, stay, move away · **To what, where:** hens, someone, barriers

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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, bear, we), 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:4
# text = A rooster may attack to guard his hens, and a bear may chase someone who runs, so we stay calm, move away slowly and keep behind barriers.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rooster	rooster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
29	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | may | a rooster |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | a rooster *not said here* |  | rooster's hens |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **chase** | may | a bear | someone |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | present | we |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **move away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | present |  |  |  | barriers |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind barrier=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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