Animals, sentence 12

Some medicines are tested on animals to keep people safe; whether this is right is a disputed question argued carefully on both sides; many say it should happen only when really needed, with as few animals and as little pain as possible.

Who acts: this, many, it · What happens: test, keep, be, dispute, say, happen · To what, where: medicines, people, disputed question, sides · 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 (this, many, it), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 medicines	det
2	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tested	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	aux:pass
4	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tested	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tested	advcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 tested	punct
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 right	mark
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 question	csubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 argued	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 question	det
18	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 question	amod
19	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tested	conj
20	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 question	acl
21	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	20 argued	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 sides	case
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sides	det
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 argued	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 happen	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 happen	aux
30	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	ccomp
31	only	only	ADV	_	34 needed	advmod
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 needed	advmod
33	really	really	ADV	_	34 needed	advmod
34	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 happen	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 animals	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 animals	case
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 few	advmod
38	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 animals	amod
39	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 happen	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pain	cc
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 little	advmod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pain	amod
43	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 animals	conj
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 possible	mark
45	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happen	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tested	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	test	present · passive		some medicines		on animals	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive		people		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	is	present	this			right property	tree rules
4	dispute	participle					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present		a disputed question not said here	both sides	argue, carefully property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	many				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	happen	should	it			with few animals and little pain	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	need	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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:12.

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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