Animals, sentence 5
For a child today this means being kind and wise: feeding your pet every day, asking an adult before you "rescue" a hurt bird, and listening to a vegetarian friend without mocking them.
Who acts: this, adult · What happens: mean, be, feed, ask, rescue, listen · To what, where: pet, adult, hurt bird, reasons · 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, adult), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kind | cop |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wise | cc |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeding | punct |
| 12 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeding | obj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeding | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asking | punct |
| 18 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 feeding | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 adult | det |
| 20 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asking | obj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 rescue | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 rescue | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 rescue | punct |
| 24 | rescue | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 asking | advcl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 rescue | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bird | compound |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rescue | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 listening | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 listening | cc |
| 31 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 feeding | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 friend | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 friend | det |
| 34 | vegetarian | vegetarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 listening | obl |
| 36 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 37 mocking | mark |
| 37 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 listening | advcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 mocking | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | feed | gerund | your pet | day | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a adult | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | rescue in a quote | present | a adult = adult | a hurt bird | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 7 | listen | gerund | to a vegetarian friend | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to friend=Theme | |||||
| 8 | mock | gerund | reasons = reason | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:5.
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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