Kindness to animals, sentence 2

Small animals are easily frightened, because to them we are huge; they feel safe with people who move slowly and speak softly.

Who acts: we, animals, people · What happens: frighten, be, feel, move, speak · To what, where: Small animals · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, animals, 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huge	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 huge	mark
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 because	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 huge	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 huge	cop
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frightened	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
15	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 huge	conj
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feel	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 move	nsubj
20	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 people	acl:relcl
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 move	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 speak	cc
23	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 move	conj
24	softly	softly	ADV	_	23 speak	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	present · passive		Small animals	easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is	present	we		huge property	tree rules
3	feel	present	animals = animal		with people; safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	move	present	people		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	present	people not said here		softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): 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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