Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals, sentence 3
Kindness also means thinking about what we leave behind: a released balloon, a lost fishing hook or an uncut plastic drink ring can trap or kill an animal far away.
Who acts: Kindness, we, released balloon · What happens: mean, think, leave behind, release, lose, trap · To what, where: animal
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 (Kindness, we, released balloon), 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 | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 means | advmod |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thinking | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 leave | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 balloon | det |
| 12 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 balloon | amod |
| 13 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trap | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hook | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hook | det |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hook | amod |
| 17 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hook | compound |
| 18 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 balloon | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 ring | cc |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ring | det |
| 21 | uncut | uncut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ring | amod |
| 22 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drink | compound |
| 23 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ring | compound |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hook | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 trap | aux |
| 26 | trap | trap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thinking | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 kill | cc |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 trap | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 animal | det |
| 30 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trap | obj |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 trap | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Kindness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Kindness not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave behind | present | we | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | release | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | trap | can | a released balloon and a lost fishing hook or a uncut drink ring | a animal | away property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | |||
| 7 | kill | infinitive | a released balloon and a lost fishing hook or a uncut drink ring not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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