Kindness to animals, sentence 1

Plastic rings from drink packs can trap birds, turtles, fish and other animals by the neck, beak or legs, so we cut each ring before throwing them away.

Who acts: Plastic rings, we · What happens: trap, cut, throw away · To what, where: birds, ring, rings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to 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 (Plastic rings, 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	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rings	compound
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trap	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 packs	case
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 packs	compound
5	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rings	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	aux
7	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trap	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turtles	punct
10	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 animals	cc
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animals	amod
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neck	det
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trap	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beak	punct
20	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 neck	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 legs	cc
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 neck	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 cut	advmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	parataxis
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 throwing	mark
30	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 cut	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 throwing	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	30 throwing	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 trap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trap	can	Plastic rings from drink packs	birds and turtles and fish and other animals	by the neck and beak or legs	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	cut	present	we	each ring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product
3	throw away	gerund	we not said here	rings = ring	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:everyday:207-kindness-to-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): R3-conj-first ×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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