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title: If cows chase you because of your dog, you let go of the lead and ge… — Allergies, horses and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: If cows chase you because of your dog, you let go of the lead and get to safety. Who acts: cows, you. A sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 18

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If cows chase you because of your dog, you let go of the lead and get to safety.

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**Who acts:** cows, you · **What happens:** chase, let, go, get · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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 (cows, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:18
# text = If cows chase you because of your dog, you let go of the lead and get to safety.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **chase** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | cows | you |  |  |  | because your dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the lead | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of lead=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to safety *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to safety=Result |

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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:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:18`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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