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title: A wild animal that acts oddly tame or strange may be sick, sometimes… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A wild animal that acts oddly tame or strange may be sick, sometimes with rabies. Who acts: wild animal. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respecting wild animals, sentence 14

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A wild animal that acts oddly tame or strange may be sick, sometimes with rabies.

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**Who acts:** wild animal · **What happens:** act, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild 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 (wild animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:14
# text = A wild animal that acts oddly tame or strange may be sick, sometimes with rabies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 070-respecting-wild-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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	acts	act	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	oddly	oddly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **act** | present | a wild animal |  |  |  |  | tame *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | may | a wild animal |  |  |  |  | with rabies; sick *property* | tree rules |

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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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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