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title: If you meet a bear in the woods of Canada or the USA, stay with the… — Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: If you meet a bear in the woods of Canada or the USA, stay with the adults, do not run, talk calmly and back away slowly. Who acts: you. 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 pragmat
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# Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 8

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If you meet a bear in the woods of Canada or the USA, stay with the adults, do not run, talk calmly and back away slowly.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** meet, stay, not run, talk · **To what, where:** bear, woods

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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), 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:8
# text = If you meet a bear in the woods of Canada or the USA, stay with the adults, do not run, talk calmly and back away slowly.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
25	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a bear |  | the woods of Canada or the USA |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the adults | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location |
| 3 | **not** **run** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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