Kindness to wild animals, sentence 1

Being kind to wild animals often means leaving them alone: a frog on a path can be gently moved aside with wet hands or not touched at all, because soap and sun cream on our skin can harm its thin skin, and an ant nest should not be poked just for fun.

Who acts: kind, soap cream · What happens: be, mean, leave, move, not touch, harm · To what, where: animals, frog, all, thin skin, ant nest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology 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 (kind, soap cream), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 means	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leaving	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leaving	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 frog	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 frog	det
13	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moved	nsubj:pass
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 path	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 path	det
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frog	nmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 moved	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 moved	aux:pass
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 moved	advmod
20	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leaving	advcl
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	20 moved	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hands	amod
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 moved	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 touched	cc
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 touched	advmod
27	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 moved	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 touched	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 harm	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 harm	mark
32	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cream	compound
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sun	cc
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 soap	conj
35	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 harm	nsubj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 skin	case
37	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 skin	nmod:poss
38	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cream	nmod
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 harm	aux
40	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 touched	conj
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 skin	nmod:poss
42	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 skin	amod
43	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 harm	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 poked	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 poked	cc
46	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 nest	det
47	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 nest	compound
48	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 poked	nsubj:pass
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 poked	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 poked	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 poked	aux:pass
52	poked	poke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 touched	conj
53	just	just	ADV	_	55 fun	advmod
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 fun	case
55	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 poked	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				to wild animals; kind property	tree rules
2	mean	present	kind			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave not said to happen	gerund	kind not said here	animals = animal		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	move	can · passive		a frog on a path		with wet hands; aside, gently property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result
5	not touch	participle			all		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	harm	can	soap cream on our skin	cream's thin skin			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer
7	not poke	should · passive		a ant nest		for fun	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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, 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:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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