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title: Some farm animals, like cockerels and geese, guard their patch; stay… — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some farm animals, like cockerels and geese, guard their patch; stay calm, keep something between you and let an adult deal with them. Who acts: adult. 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 
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# Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 33

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Some farm animals, like cockerels and geese, guard their patch; stay calm, keep something between you and let an adult deal with them.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** guard, stay, keep, let, deal · **To what, where:** patch, something

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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 (adult), 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:33
# text = Some farm animals, like cockerels and geese, guard their patch; stay calm, keep something between you and let an adult deal with them.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cockerels	cockerel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	geese	geese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	guard	guard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
15	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **guard** | infinitive |  | animals's patch |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | between you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme between you=Location |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deal** | infinitive | a adult |  |  |  |  | with animals *= animal* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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