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title: Swans can hit hard and you should keep away from nesting swans, but… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Swans can hit hard and you should keep away from nesting swans, but there is little evidence of them breaking adults' arms. Who acts: Swans, you, little evidence. A sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Birds and baby animals, sentence 10

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Swans can hit hard and you should keep away from nesting swans, but there is little evidence of them breaking adults' arms.

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**Who acts:** Swans, you, little evidence · **What happens:** hit, keep away, nest, be, break, evidence · **To what, where:** swans, arms, birds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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 (Swans, you, little evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:10
# text = Swans can hit hard and you should keep away from nesting swans, but there is little evidence of them breaking adults' arms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 010-birds-and-baby-animals.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): no change
1	Swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	nesting	nest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | can | Swans |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | should | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nest** | gerund | you *not said here* | swans |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Location |
| 4 | **be** | present | little evidence of birds |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | gerund | little evidence of birds *not said here* | adults's arms |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
| 6 | **evidence** |  |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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:myths:010-birds-and-baby-animals.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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