Kindness to wild animals, sentence 2
Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing line, and ducks and birds get caught in plastic drink rings, so we take line home and cut the rings before throwing them away.
Who acts: rubbish, we · What happens: hurt, tangle, catch, take, cut, throw away · To what, where: animals, swans, old fishing line, ducks, plastic drink rings, line
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 (rubbish, we), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rubbish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 tangled | punct |
| 8 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tangled | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tangled | aux:pass |
| 10 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 line | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 line | amod |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 line | compound |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tangled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caught | cc |
| 17 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 birds | cc |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ducks | conj |
| 20 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 caught | aux:pass |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tangled | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 rings | case |
| 23 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rings | amod |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rings | compound |
| 25 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caught | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 caught | conj |
| 30 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cut | cc |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rings | det |
| 35 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cut | obj |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 throwing | mark |
| 37 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 cut | advcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 throwing | obj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 throwing | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | Our rubbish | animals | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tangle | present · passive | swans | old fishing line | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | present · passive | ducks and birds | plastic drink rings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present | we | line | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | |||
| 5 | cut | present | we not said here | the rings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | ||||
| 6 | throw away | gerund | we not said here | animals = animal | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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