Being gentle with small animals, sentence 3

Moving slowly and speaking softly tells an animal that you are not a threat.

Who acts: Moving, you · What happens: move, speak, tell, not be · To what, where: animal, threat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being gentle with small animals» of the everyday 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 (Moving, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tells	csubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Moving	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 speaking	cc
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Moving	conj
5	softly	softly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 speaking	advmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 threat	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 threat	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 threat	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 threat	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 threat	det
14	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	move	gerund				slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund				softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	Moving		a animal		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
4	not is a	present	you	a threat			tree rules

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, 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:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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