Animals, sentence 16
Building on land can destroy animals' homes (habitats), so human needs and animal needs must be balanced.
Who acts: Building · What happens: destroy, balance · To what, where: homes, human needs
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 (Building), 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 | Building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroy | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Building | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 destroy | aux |
| 5 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 homes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 animals | case |
| 8 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 destroy | obj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 habitats | punct |
| 10 | habitats | habitat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 homes | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 habitats | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needs | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 human | advmod |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 needs | amod |
| 15 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 balanced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 needs | cc |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | compound |
| 18 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 needs | conj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 balanced | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 balanced | aux:pass |
| 21 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 destroy | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | can | Building on land | animals's homes | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument home=Patient | ||||
| 2 | balance | must · passive | human needs and animal needs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:16.
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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