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title: With small animals, always move slowly and speak softly, because ani… — Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: With small animals, always move slowly and speak softly, because animals feel safe with calm people. Who acts: you, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 19

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With small animals, always move slowly and speak softly, because animals feel safe with calm people.

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**Who acts:** you, animals · **What happens:** move, speak, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:19
# text = With small animals, always move slowly and speak softly, because animals feel safe with calm people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.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	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with small animals; always, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | present | animals |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.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): 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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