Caring for pets, sentence 4

Kindness means handling animals gently, never teasing them, letting them rest, and remembering that a pet is a promise for its whole life, not a toy for a few weeks.

Who acts: Kindness, lilies, pet · What happens: mean, handle, not tease, let, rest, remember · To what, where: animals, lilies, promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» 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 (Kindness, lilies, pet), 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	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	handling	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 handling	obj
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 handling	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teasing	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 teasing	advmod
8	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 handling	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 teasing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 letting	punct
11	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 teasing	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 letting	obj
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 letting	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remembering	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remembering	cc
16	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 handling	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 promise	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pet	det
19	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 promise	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 promise	det
22	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remembering	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 life	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 toy	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 toy	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 toy	det
30	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promise	appos
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 weeks	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 weeks	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 weeks	amod
34	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 toy	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Kindness			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	handle	gerund		animals	gently property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	not tease	gerund		lilies = lily		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	let	gerund		lilies = lily		tree rules
5	rest	infinitive	lilies = lily not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	remember	gerund				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	a pet	a promise	for pet's whole life	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:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:4.

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. 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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