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title: Some roosters protect their hens by attacking, so you walk away calm… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: Some roosters protect their hens by attacking, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner. Who acts: roosters, you. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 12

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Some roosters protect their hens by attacking, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.

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**Who acts:** roosters, you · **What happens:** protect, attack, walk away, tell · **To what, where:** hens, owner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 (roosters, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:12
# text = Some roosters protect their hens by attacking, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	roosters	rooster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **protect** | present | some roosters |  | roosters's hens |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **attack** | gerund | some roosters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away, calmly *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |

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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): R7-rel-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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