--- title: She stays close to her parents, does not run, and they talk calmly w… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: She stays close to her parents, does not run, and they talk calmly while backing away slowly until the bear is out of sight. Who acts: girl, parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, parents), 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:7 # text = She stays close to her parents, does not run, and they talk calmly while backing away slowly until the bear is out of sight. # 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 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 backing back VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 until until ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | girl | | | | | close *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **run** | present · do-support | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **back away** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | until the bear | away, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | sight | | | tree rules | 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. **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:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/6/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)