Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 9
Meat is the muscle of an animal that was killed for food; in Britain the law says animals at an abattoir must usually be made unconscious first so they do not feel it.
Who acts: Meat, law, babies · What happens: be, kill, say, make, not feel · To what, where: muscle, animal, Britain, animals, meat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 (Meat, law, babies), 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 | Meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muscle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 muscle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 muscle | det |
| 4 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 animal | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 muscle | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animal | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Britain | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Britain | case |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 says | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 law | det |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 muscle | parataxis |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 abattoir | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 abattoir | det |
| 22 | abattoir | abattoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 animals | nmod |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux |
| 24 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 26 made | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 says | ccomp |
| 27 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 made | xcomp |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 made | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 33 feel | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 feel | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 feel | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 feel | advmod |
| 33 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 feel | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 muscle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Meat | the muscle | of a animal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | a animal | for food | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the law | Britain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | must · passive | animals at a abattoir | first, unconscious, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | not feel | present · do-support | babies = baby | meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:9.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/9/