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title: Many animals that look lost or helpless are fine: a fawn or a young… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animals that look lost or helpless are fine: a fawn or a young hare alone in a field is hidden on purpose, and its mother comes back to feed it. Who acts: Many animals, mother. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Respecting wild animals, sentence 2

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Many animals that look lost or helpless are fine: a fawn or a young hare alone in a field is hidden on purpose, and its mother comes back to feed it.

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**Who acts:** Many animals, mother · **What happens:** look, be, hide, come back, feed · **To what, where:** fawn, field, Food

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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 (Many animals, mother), 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:2
# text = Many animals that look lost or helpless are fine: a fawn or a young hare alone in a field is hidden on purpose, and its mother comes back to feed it.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	lost	lose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **look** | present | Many animals |  |  |  |  | lose *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Many animals |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present · passive |  | a fawn or a young hare |  | a field |  | on purpose | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in field=Location |
| 4 | **come back** | present | purpose's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feed** | to-infinitive | purpose's mother *not said here* | Food |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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**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.

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