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title: Being gentle keeps both you and the animal safe. — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Being gentle keeps both you and the animal safe. 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.
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# Being gentle with small animals, sentence 8

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Being gentle keeps both you and the animal safe.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:8
# text = Being gentle keeps both you and the animal safe.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	cop	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	csubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | keep, safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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