When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 14
Christians differ about whether animals go to heaven; many Hindus and Buddhists believe animals are reborn; some people believe animals simply die.
Who acts: Christians, animals, many Hindus, people · What happens: differ, go, believe, reborn, die · To what, where: heaven, animals · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Christians, animals, many Hindus, people), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 differ | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Hindus | amod |
| 11 | Hindus | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Buddhists | cc |
| 13 | Buddhists | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Hindus | conj |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 differ | parataxis |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reborn | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reborn | aux:pass |
| 17 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 believe | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 believe | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | conj |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 die | nsubj |
| 23 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 24 die | advmod |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Christians | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | present | animals | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | many Hindus and Buddhists | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | reborn | present · passive | animals | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | believe | present | some people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | die | present | animals | simply property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:14.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
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