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title: Running can make a bear chase you, so you stay with adults, speak ca… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: Running can make a bear chase you, so you stay with adults, speak calmly and back away slowly. Who acts: bear, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 23

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Running can make a bear chase you, so you stay with adults, speak calmly and back away slowly.

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**Who acts:** bear, you · **What happens:** run, make, chase, stay, speak, back away · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (bear, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:23
# text = Running can make a bear chase you, so you stay with adults, speak calmly and back away slowly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
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	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	back	back	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | infinitive | a bear | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | with adults | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **back away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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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