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title: Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is ne… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is nearby, and taking them away often kills them. Who acts: parent, taking. 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
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 23

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Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is nearby, and taking them away often kills them.

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**Who acts:** parent, taking · **What happens:** find, not lose, be, take away, kill · **To what, where:** Most young wild animals, animals

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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 (parent, taking), 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:23
# text = Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is nearby, and taking them away often kills them.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **find** | participle |  | Most young wild animals *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **lose** | present · passive |  | Most young wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | animals's parent |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** | gerund |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | present | taking | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:23`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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