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title: Many animals attack to protect their babies, nest or food, not becau… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animals attack to protect their babies, nest or food, not because they are mean. Who acts: Many animals, Animals. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like an animal, sentence 22

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Many animals attack to protect their babies, nest or food, not because they are mean.

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**Who acts:** Many animals, Animals · **What happens:** attack, protect, not be · **To what, where:** babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (Many animals, Animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:22
# text = Many animals attack to protect their babies, nest or food, not because they are mean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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 ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | Many animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Many animals *not said here* | Animals's babies and nest or food |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | Animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | mean *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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:22`.

**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 ×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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