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title: At the zoo Kieran bangs on the monkey glass, and a monkey chucks som… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the zoo Kieran bangs on the monkey glass, and a monkey chucks something disgusting at it; a keeper asks him to stop and he goes bright red. Who acts: Kieran, monkey, keeper. A sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 18

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At the zoo Kieran bangs on the monkey glass, and a monkey chucks something disgusting at it; a keeper asks him to stop and he goes bright red.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, monkey, keeper · **What happens:** bang, chuck, ask, stop, go · **To what, where:** zoo, something, monkey

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends» 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 (Kieran, monkey, keeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:18
# text = At the zoo Kieran bangs on the monkey glass, and a monkey chucks something disgusting at it; a keeper asks him to stop and he goes bright red.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bangs	bang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	chucks	chuck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **bang** | present | Kieran |  |  | the zoo |  | on the monkey glass | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at zoo=Location |
| 2 | **chuck** | present | a monkey | something |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a keeper |  | monkey |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a keeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go** | present | keeper |  |  |  |  | bright, red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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