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title: A huge goose hisses, stretches out its neck and charges, wings wide. — Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A huge goose hisses, stretches out its neck and charges, wings wide. Who acts: huge goose. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Magpies, geese, ponies and swans: animals that are not your friends, sentence 7

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A huge goose hisses, stretches out its neck and charges, wings wide.

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**Who acts:** huge goose · **What happens:** hiss, stretch out, charge · **To what, where:** neck

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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 (huge goose), 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:7
# text = A huge goose hisses, stretches out its neck and charges, wings wide.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hisses	hiss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	charges	charge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hiss** | present | a huge goose |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch out** | present | a huge goose *not said here* | magpie's neck |  |  |  | wings *obl*; wide *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 3 | **charge** | present | a huge goose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:7`.

**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.

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

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