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title: At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the signs, stay behind the barriers, keep quiet and switch off the camera flash. Who acts: animals, we. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 1

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At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the signs, stay behind the barriers, keep quiet and switch off the camera flash.

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**Who acts:** animals, we · **What happens:** be, follow, stay, keep, switch off · **To what, where:** zoo, signs, barriers, camera flash

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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 (animals, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:1
# text = At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the signs, stay behind the barriers, keep quiet and switch off the camera flash.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
27	switch	switch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the animals |  |  | a zoo or a aquarium | still | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | we | the signs |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | present | we *not said here* |  |  | the barriers |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind barrier=Location |
| 4 | **keep** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **switch off** | present | we *not said here* | the camera flash |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Patient |

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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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:1`.

**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, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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