Animals, sentence 10
Whether it is right to eat meat is a disputed question; respectful people accept others' food choices.
Who acts: it, respectful people · What happens: be, eat, dispute, accept · To what, where: meat, disputed question, food choices · 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 (it, respectful 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 4 right | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 question | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | xcomp |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 question | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 question | det |
| 10 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 question | amod |
| 11 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 accept | punct |
| 13 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accept | nsubj |
| 15 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 question | parataxis |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 choices | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 others | case |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 choices | compound |
| 19 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accept | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 question | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dispute | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | be speech: other | present | a disputed question | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accept | present | respectful people | others's food choices | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:10.
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, 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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