Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 12

After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even a small grave is not a good idea and can spread germs.

Who acts: body, digging · What happens: break down, dig up, not be, spread · To what, where: soil, small grave, good idea, germs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (body, digging), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 death	case
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	nsubj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 breaks	advmod
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 breaks	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 soil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soil	det
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 digging	punct
12	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 idea	csubj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 digging	compound:prt
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 grave	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grave	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 digging	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 idea	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 idea	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 idea	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 idea	amod
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 spread	aux
25	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 idea	conj
26	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spread	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	a body		after death	into the soil result; slowly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soil=Result
2	dig up	gerund		a small grave			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
3	not is a	present	digging	a good idea			tree rules
4	spread	can	digging not said here	germs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=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:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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