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title: A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from d… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics
description: A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger. Who acts: foal, platypus. A sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 11

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A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger.

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**Who acts:** foal, platypus · **What happens:** walk, keep up, run · **To what, where:** danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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 (foal, platypus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:11
# text = A foal must walk soon so it can keep up with the herd and run from danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 075-mammals-and-their-young.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **walk** | must | a foal |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep up** | can | platypus |  |  |  |  | with the herd | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive | platypus *not said here* |  |  | danger |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from danger=Trajectory |

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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:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:11`.

**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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