--- title: Banging on zoo glass frightens animals and can make them throw thing… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics description: Banging on zoo glass frightens animals and can make them throw things or hurt themselves. Who acts: Banging, animals. 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/32/) [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/) / 32 # Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 32 Banging on zoo glass frightens animals and can make them throw things or hurt themselves. **Who acts:** Banging, animals · **What happens:** bang, frighten, make, throw, hurt · **To what, where:** zoo glass, animals, things 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 (Banging, animals), 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:32 # text = Banging on zoo glass frightens animals and can make them throw things or hurt themselves. # 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 Banging bang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 frightens frighten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bang** | gerund | | | | zoo glass | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on glass=Location | | 2 | **frighten** | present | Banging | animals | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | can | Banging *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **throw** | infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | things | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **hurt** | infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient | 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:32`. **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. 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