--- title: When you want to settle an argument about a creature, read a guide,… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: When you want to settle an argument about a creature, read a guide, count, or watch; never hurt an animal to prove a point. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/5/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/) / 5 # Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 5 When you want to settle an argument about a creature, read a guide, count, or watch; never hurt an animal to prove a point. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** want, settle, read, count, watch, not hurt · **To what, where:** argument, guide, animal, point This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:5 # text = When you want to settle an argument about a creature, read a guide, count, or watch; never hurt an animal to prove a point. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 guide guide NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **settle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a argument | | | | about a creature | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=Location | | 3 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | a guide | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guide=Topic | | 4 | **count** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive | | a animal | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | | 7 | **prove** | to-infinitive | | a point | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/4/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)