Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 10

A snail is a living creature; killing animals for fun is unkind, and Buddhists and Jains try not to harm any living thing at all.

Who acts: snail, killing, Buddhists · What happens: be, kill, try, not harm · To what, where: living creature, animals, living thing, all

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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 (snail, killing, Buddhists), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creature	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creature	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
5	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creature	compound
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
8	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 unkind	csubj
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 killing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 fun	case
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killing	obl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unkind	cop
13	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 try	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 try	cc
16	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 try	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Jains	cc
18	Jains	jain	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 Buddhists	conj
19	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creature	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 harm	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 harm	mark
22	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	xcomp
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 thing	det
24	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thing	compound
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 harm	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 thing	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 creature	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	is a	present	a snail	a living creature			tree rules
2	kill	gerund		animals		for fun	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	is	present	killing			unkind property	tree rules
4	try	present	Buddhists and Jains				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	not harm not said to happen	to-infinitive	Buddhists and Jains not said here	any living thing	all		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer

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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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