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title: At a petting farm you hold a chick gently in cupped hands while sitt… — Allergies, horses and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: At a petting farm you hold a chick gently in cupped hands while sitting down, because a fall can hurt it. Who acts: you, fall. 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 23

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At a petting farm you hold a chick gently in cupped hands while sitting down, because a fall can hurt it.

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**Who acts:** you, fall · **What happens:** hold, cup, sit down, hurt · **To what, where:** chick, petting farm

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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 (you, fall), 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:23
# text = At a petting farm you hold a chick gently in cupped hands while sitting down, because a fall can hurt it.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	petting	petting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	cupped	cup	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hold** | present | you | a chick |  | a petting farm |  | in cupped hands; gently *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chick=Theme at farm=Location |
| 2 | **cup** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hurt** | can | a fall | chick |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |

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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:23`.

**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/).

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