--- title: Leave a small animal alone when it hides or is sleeping. — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics description: Leave a small animal alone when it hides or is sleeping. Who acts: you, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Being gentle with small animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/) / 18 # Being gentle with small animals, sentence 18 Leave a small animal alone when it hides or is sleeping. **Who acts:** you, pet · **What happens:** leave, hide, sleep · **To what, where:** small animal This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small 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, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:18 # text = Leave a small animal alone when it hides or is sleeping. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.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 Leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 alone alone ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small animal | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 2 | **hide** | present | pet | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sleep** | present · progressive | pet *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Being gentle with small animals, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/17/) - next →: [Being gentle with small animals, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/)