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title: In spring, look at lambs but keep away from them and keep dogs on a… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In spring, look at lambs but keep away from them and keep dogs on a lead, because mother sheep may panic and dogs can chase and hurt sheep. Who acts: you, mother sheep, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course o
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 12

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In spring, look at lambs but keep away from them and keep dogs on a lead, because mother sheep may panic and dogs can chase and hurt sheep.

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**Who acts:** you, mother sheep, dogs · **What happens:** look, keep away, keep, panic, chase, hurt · **To what, where:** dogs, lead, sheep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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, mother sheep, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:12
# text = In spring, look at lambs but keep away from them and keep dogs on a lead, because mother sheep may panic and dogs can chase and hurt sheep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	panic	panic	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | at lambs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lamb=Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | dogs |  | a lead |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location |
| 4 | **panic** | may | mother sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chase** | can | dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hurt** | infinitive | dogs *not said here* | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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