--- title: Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slow… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics description: Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slowly and speaks softly gets to watch a blackbird pull up a worm only a few steps away. Who acts: Animals, boy, blackbird. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/4/) [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/) / [Keeping garden wildlife safe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/) / 4 # Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 4 Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slowly and speaks softly gets to watch a blackbird pull up a worm only a few steps away. **Who acts:** Animals, boy, blackbird · **What happens:** feel, move, speak, get, watch, pull up · **To what, where:** worm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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, boy, blackbird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:4 # text = Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slowly and speaks softly gets to watch a blackbird pull up a worm only a few steps away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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): R5-strong ×2 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 softly softly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 blackbird blackbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 31 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Animals | | | | | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **move** | present | a boy in Auckland | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a boy in Auckland *not said here* | | | | | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | a boy in Auckland | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | a boy in Auckland *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pull up** | infinitive | a blackbird | a worm | | | | away *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent worm=Result | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:4`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Keeping garden wildlife safe, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/3/) - next →: [Keeping garden wildlife safe, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/)