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title: He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back a… — Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back away the way they came, giving the bear plenty of room. Who acts: boy, 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 de
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# Caring for pets and staying safe around farm, wild and zoo animals, sentence 7

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He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back away the way they came, giving the bear plenty of room.

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**Who acts:** boy, animals · **What happens:** stay, talk, back away, come, give · **To what, where:** calm voices, way, plenty, bear

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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 (boy, 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:7
# text = He stays next to his dad, they talk in calm voices and slowly back away the way they came, giving the bear plenty of room.
# 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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
15	back	back	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl:unmarked
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **stay** | present | boy |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | present | animals *= animal* |  |  | calm voices |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **back away** | present | animals *= animal* *not said here* | the way |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | animals *= animal* | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | animals *= animal* *not said here* | plenty of room | the bear |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient plenty=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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**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 ×6, 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.

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

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