Animals, sentence 15
Killing insects and pests raises the question of respect for life against safety and comfort.
Who acts: Killing · What happens: kill, raise, question · To what, where: insects, question, safety, respect
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 (Killing), 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 | Killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 raises | csubj |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Killing | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 pests | cc |
| 4 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 insects | conj |
| 5 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raises | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 respect | case |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 question | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 respect | nmod |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 safety | case |
| 13 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raises | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comfort | cc |
| 15 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 safety | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raises | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | insects and pests | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | present | Killing | the question of respect for life | safety and comfort | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent question=Theme against safety=Destination | |||
| 3 | question | respect for life | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-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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