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title: He gently moves a few back onto the grass, because worms that stay o… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: He gently moves a few back onto the grass, because worms that stay on the hard path can dry out and die. Who acts: boy, worms. 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 6

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He gently moves a few back onto the grass, because worms that stay on the hard path can dry out and die.

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**Who acts:** boy, worms · **What happens:** move, stay, dry out, die · **To what, where:** few, hard path

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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 (boy, worms), 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:6
# text = He gently moves a few back onto the grass, because worms that stay on the hard path can dry out and die.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | boy | a few |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | present | worms |  |  | the hard path |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location |
| 3 | **dry out** | can | worms |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | infinitive | worms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:6`.

**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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