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title: Keep your distance from spiders and insects and ask an adult to move… — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep your distance from spiders and insects and ask an adult to move them; most are harmless, though in Australia some spiders do need an adult. Who acts: you, most, spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 19

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Keep your distance from spiders and insects and ask an adult to move them; most are harmless, though in Australia some spiders do need an adult.

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**Who acts:** you, most, spiders · **What happens:** keep, ask, move, be, need · **To what, where:** distance, spiders, adult, insects, Australia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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, most, spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:19
# text = Keep your distance from spiders and insects and ask an adult to move them; most are harmless, though in Australia some spiders do need an adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 291-handling-anger-and-fear.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | your distance |  | spiders and insects |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from spider=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | insects *= insect* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | most |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present · do-support | some spiders | a adult |  | Australia |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=Theme |

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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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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