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title: Scientists sort animals into groups by their bodies, not by where th… — Groups of animals and how to tell them apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists sort animals into groups by their bodies, not by where they live or how they move. Who acts: Scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 0

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Scientists sort animals into groups by their bodies, not by where they live or how they move.

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**Who acts:** Scientists · **What happens:** sort, not live, move · **To what, where:** animals, groups

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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 (Scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:0
# text = Scientists sort animals into groups by their bodies, not by where they live or how they move.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 024-animal-groups.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 ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sort	sort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sort** | present | Scientists | animals |  |  |  | into groups *goal*; by Scientists's bodies | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent animal=Theme into group=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **live** | present | Scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by where=Location |
| 3 | **move** | present | Scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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