--- title: She sits on the floor, waits quietly, lets it sniff her hand and lif… — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics description: She sits on the floor, waits quietly, lets it sniff her hand and lifts it gently with two hands, one under its bottom, while her friend watches. Who acts: girl, floor, friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, floor, friend), 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:5 # text = She sits on the floor, waits quietly, lets it sniff her hand and lifts it gently with two hands, one under its bottom, while her friend watches. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 gently gently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 appos _ _ 24 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod:poss 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound 31 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | girl | | | the floor | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | | 2 | **wait** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sniff** | infinitive | floor | girl's hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **lift** | present | girl *not said here* | floor | | | | with two hands; gently *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **watch** | present | girl's friend | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Being gentle with small animals, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/4/) - next →: [Being gentle with small animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/)