Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 0

Wild animals live their own lives and are not pets or toys: the kind thing is to watch them calmly from a safe distance and let them be.

Who acts: Wild animals, kind thing, lives · What happens: live, not be, be, let · To what, where: own lives, pets, lives

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals, zoos and 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 (Wild animals, kind thing, lives), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lives	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lives	amod
6	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pets	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pets	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pets	advmod
10	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 toys	cc
12	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pets	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watch	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watch	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 watch	mark
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 live	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 watch	obj
21	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	19 watch	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 distance	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 distance	det
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 distance	amod
25	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watch	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 watch	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wild animals	animals's own lives		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
2	not is a	present	Wild animals not said here	pets or toys		tree rules
3	is	present	the kind thing		from a safe distance; calmly, watch property	tree rules
4	let	infinitive	the kind thing not said here	lives = life		tree rules
5	be	infinitive	lives = life not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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