--- title: A scared animal may scratch, bite, wriggle free and fall. — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics description: A scared animal may scratch, bite, wriggle free and fall. Who acts: scared animal. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Being gentle with small animals, sentence 7 A scared animal may scratch, bite, wriggle free and fall. **Who acts:** scared animal · **What happens:** scratch, bite, wriggle, fall 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 (scared animal), 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:7 # text = A scared animal may scratch, bite, wriggle free and fall. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 wriggle wriggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scratch** | may | a scared animal | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | infinitive | a scared animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wriggle** | infinitive | a scared animal *not said here* | | | | | free *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall** | infinitive | a scared animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/6/) - next →: [Being gentle with small animals, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/)