Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 13

Most meat comes from farm animals; some people, vegetarians and vegans, choose not to eat meat, and many Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarian because their faiths teach care for animal life.

Who acts: Most meat, people, many Hindus, faiths · What happens: come, choose, not eat, be, teach · To what, where: meat, care

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» 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 (Most meat, people, many Hindus, faiths), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 meat	amod
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 animals	case
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animals	compound
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 choose	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vegetarians	punct
11	vegetarians	vegetarian	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 people	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 vegans	cc
13	vegans	vegan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 vegetarians	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 choose	punct
15	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 eat	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 choose	xcomp
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 vegetarian	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 vegetarian	cc
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Hindus	amod
23	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 vegetarian	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Buddhists	cc
25	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Hindus	conj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 vegetarian	cop
27	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 choose	conj
28	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	31 teach	mark
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 faiths	nmod:poss
30	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 teach	nsubj
31	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 vegetarian	advcl
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 teach	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 life	case
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 life	compound
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 care	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	Most meat		from farm animals	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial_Location
2	choose	present	some people			tree rules
3	not eat	to-infinitive	some people not said here	meat		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	is	present	many Hindus and Buddhists		vegetarian property	tree rules
5	teach speech: other	present	Hindus's faiths	care	for animal life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent care=Recipient

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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:13.

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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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