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title: A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off i… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds. Who acts: kiwi, rare bird, friendly dog. 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 5

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A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds.

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**Who acts:** kiwi, rare bird, friendly dog · **What happens:** be, not fly, kill · **To what, where:** rare bird, one

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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 (kiwi, rare bird, friendly dog), 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:5
# text = A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a kiwi | a rare bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fly** | can | a rare bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | can | a friendly dog off kiwi's lead | one |  |  | second |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:5`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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