--- title: Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them calmly. Who acts: Chasing, we. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/) / 16 # Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 16 Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them calmly. **Who acts:** Chasing, we · **What happens:** chase, frighten, tire, watch · **To what, where:** pigeons 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 (Chasing, 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:16 # text = Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them calmly. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Chasing chase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 frightens frighten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 tires tire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | gerund | | pigeons or ducks | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme | | 2 | **frighten** | present | Chasing | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **tire** | present | Chasing *not said here* | pigeons *= pigeon* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **watch** | present | we | pigeons *= pigeon* | | | | calmly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. 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