When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 10
One extra pinch of food is very unlikely to kill a fish; an honest mistake is not the same as meaning harm.
Who acts: One extra pinch, honest mistake · What happens: be, kill, not be, mean, pinch · To what, where: fish, harm, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» 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 (One extra pinch, honest mistake), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pinch | nummod |
| 2 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pinch | amod |
| 3 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unlikely | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pinch | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unlikely | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 unlikely | advmod |
| 8 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unlikely | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 same | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mistake | det |
| 15 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mistake | amod |
| 16 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 same | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 same | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 same | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 unlikely | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 meaning | mark |
| 22 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 same | advcl |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meaning | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unlikely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One extra pinch of food | unlikely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | One extra pinch of food not said here | a fish | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | a honest mistake | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | a honest mistake not said here | harm | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic | ||||
| 5 | pinch | food | nom pinch «state 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:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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): 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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