Kindness to animals, sentence 16
Hurting or tormenting an animal is cruel, it can make the animal attack, and it is against the law.
Who acts: Hurting, dog · What happens: hurt, torment, be, make · To what, where: animal, animal attack
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 (Hurting, dog), 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 | Hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 cruel | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 tormenting | cc |
| 3 | tormenting | torment | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Hurting | conj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 animal | det |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tormenting | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cruel | cop |
| 7 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cruel | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 attack | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attack | compound |
| 14 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 law | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 law | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 law | cop |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 law | det |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cruel | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | torment | gerund | a animal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Hurting | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | can | dog | the animal attack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material attack=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | present | dog | against the law | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-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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