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title: Always move slowly and speak softly around small animals. — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Always move slowly and speak softly around small animals. Who acts: you. 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 9

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Always move slowly and speak softly around small animals.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** move, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (you), 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:9
# text = Always move slowly and speak softly around small animals.
# 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	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	.	.	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 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around small animals; softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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