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title: For example, a fluffy young bird hopping on the lawn is usually a fl… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a fluffy young bird hopping on the lawn is usually a fledgling learning to fly; its parents are close by, still feeding it, so the kindest thing is to leave it alone and keep cats indoors. Who acts: fluffy young bird, fledgling, parents, kindest thing. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking
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# Thinking like an animal, sentence 4

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For example, a fluffy young bird hopping on the lawn is usually a fledgling learning to fly; its parents are close by, still feeding it, so the kindest thing is to leave it alone and keep cats indoors.

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**Who acts:** fluffy young bird, fledgling, parents, kindest thing · **What happens:** hop, be, learn, fly, feed, keep · **To what, where:** lawn, fledgling, bird, cats

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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 (fluffy young bird, fledgling, parents, kindest thing), 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:4
# text = For example, a fluffy young bird hopping on the lawn is usually a fledgling learning to fly; its parents are close by, still feeding it, so the kindest thing is to leave it alone and keep cats indoors.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	by	by	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:outer	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
41	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **hop** | gerund | a fluffy young bird *not said here* |  |  | the lawn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a fluffy young bird | a fledgling |  |  |  | for example; usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund | a fledgling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | bird's parents |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feed** | gerund | bird's parents *not said here* | bird |  |  | still |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | the kindest thing |  |  |  |  | alone, leave *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **keep** | infinitive | the kindest thing *not said here* | cats |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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