Animals, sentence 0
Animals can feel pain and fear, so most people believe we have real duties towards them, and that cruelty to animals is wrong.
Who acts: Animals, most people, we, cruelty · What happens: feel, believe, have, be · To what, where: pain, real duties · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics 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 (Animals, most people, we, cruelty), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fear | cc |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pain | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believe | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 believe | advmod |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | parataxis |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | ccomp |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 duties | amod |
| 15 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 duties | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wrong | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wrong | cc |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 cruelty | det |
| 21 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wrong | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 animals | case |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cruelty | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wrong | cop |
| 25 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | Animals | pain and fear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | most people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | present | we | real duties | towards people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | present | that cruelty to animals | wrong property | 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:religion-ethics:046-animals.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): no change. 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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