--- title: Geese and swans can be fierce near their young; back away calmly and… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: Geese and swans can be fierce near their young; back away calmly and keep dogs on a lead near water. Who acts: Geese. 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 the pragma --- [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/29/) [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/) / 29 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 29 Geese and swans can be fierce near their young; back away calmly and keep dogs on a lead near water. **Who acts:** Geese · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** young, dogs, lead 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 (Geese), 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:29 # text = Geese and swans can be fierce near their young; back away calmly and keep dogs on a lead near water. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Geese and swans | | | geese's young | | fierce *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | Geese and swans *not said here* | dogs | | a lead | | near water; away, calmly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location | 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:29`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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