Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us, sentence 27

Throwing things at animals is cruel; today it is against the law in many countries, and kind people never do it.

Who acts: Throwing, bargain, kind people · What happens: throw, be, not do · To what, where: things, many countries, bargain

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» of the books 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 (Throwing, bargain, kind people), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cruel	csubj
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 animals	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cruel	cop
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 law	punct
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 law	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 law	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 law	cop
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 law	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 law	det
13	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cruel	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 countries	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 law	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
19	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 do	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 do	advmod
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cruel	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		things			at animals	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at animal=Destination
2	is	present	Throwing				cruel property	tree rules
3	is	present	bargain		many countries	today	against the law	tree rules
4	not do	present	kind people	bargain				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:books:095-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself.lesson:27.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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