--- title: Gulls learn that people mean food and will snatch it; don't feed the… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: Gulls learn that people mean food and will snatch it; don't feed them and eat where they can't grab. Who acts: Gulls, people. 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/31/) [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/) / 31 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 31 Gulls learn that people mean food and will snatch it; don't feed them and eat where they can't grab. **Who acts:** Gulls, people · **What happens:** learn, mean, snatch, not feed, eat, not grab · **To what, where:** food, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Gulls, people), 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:31 # text = Gulls learn that people mean food and will snatch it; don't feed them and eat where they can't grab. # 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): no change 1 Gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 snatch snatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Gulls | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | people | food | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 3 | **snatch** | future | people *not said here* | food | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **not** **feed** | infinitive · do-support | people *not said here* | people | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **eat** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **grab** | can | people | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:31`. **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/). - ← previous: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/30/) - next →: [Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: anim…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/32/) - ↑ 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/)