--- title: To pass a swooping bird, take another path for a few weeks, wear a h… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: To pass a swooping bird, take another path for a few weeks, wear a hat, and never wave sticks or throw stones. Who acts: you. 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 with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/) / 28 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 28 To pass a swooping bird, take another path for a few weeks, wear a hat, and never wave sticks or throw stones. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pass, swoop, take, wear, not wave, throw · **To what, where:** swooping bird, path, hat, sticks, stones 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 (you), 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:28 # text = To pass a swooping bird, take another path for a few weeks, wear a hat, and never wave sticks or throw stones. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 swooping swoop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 wear wear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 wave wave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a swooping bird | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Trajectory | | 2 | **swoop** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | another path | | | week | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | | 4 | **wear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hat | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | | 5 | **not** **wave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | sticks | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient | | 6 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | stones | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | 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. **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:458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends.lesson:28`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/27/) - next →: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/)