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title: Seals rest on beaches and can bite, so people stay at least 10 metre… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Seals rest on beaches and can bite, so people stay at least 10 metres away and keep dogs on a lead. Who acts: Seals, people. 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 clau
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# Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 5

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Seals rest on beaches and can bite, so people stay at least 10 metres away and keep dogs on a lead.

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**Who acts:** Seals, people · **What happens:** rest, bite, stay, keep · **To what, where:** beaches, dogs, lead

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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 (Seals, people), 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:5
# text = Seals rest on beaches and can bite, so people stay at least 10 metres away and keep dogs on a lead.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nmod	_	_
14	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **rest** | present | Seals |  |  | beaches |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |
| 2 | **bite** | can | Seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stay** | present | people |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | people *not said here* | dogs |  | a lead |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location |

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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: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 ×2, 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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