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title: Wild animals can bite or scratch, and food from people is bad for th… — Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild animals can bite or scratch, and food from people is bad for them. Who acts: Wild animals, food. A sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking, sentence 11

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Wild animals can bite or scratch, and food from people is bad for them.

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**Who acts:** Wild animals, food · **What happens:** bite, scratch, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parks, playgrounds, woods and hiking» 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 (Wild animals, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:11
# text = Wild animals can bite or scratch, and food from people is bad for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.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 ×2
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **bite** | can | Wild animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | infinitive | Wild animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | food from people |  |  |  |  | for animals *= animal*; bad *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:299-parks-playgrounds-woods-and-hiking.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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