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title: If you find an injured wild bird, the wise thing is to tell an adult… — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: If you find an injured wild bird, the wise thing is to tell an adult or call an animal rescue rather than handle it yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals, sentence 14

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If you find an injured wild bird, the wise thing is to tell an adult or call an animal rescue rather than handle it yourself.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, be, tell, call, handle · **To what, where:** injured wild bird, wise thing, adult, animal rescue, bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics 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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:14
# text = If you find an injured wild bird, the wise thing is to tell an adult or call an animal rescue rather than handle it yourself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 046-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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a injured wild bird |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the wise thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive |  | a animal rescue |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescue=Recipient |
| 5 | **handle** | infinitive |  | bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:14`.

**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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