Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 4

Some things are better left alone: a dead animal on the road can carry germs, so we do not touch it, and a small grave is a place of rest, not something to dig up to look.

Who acts: dead animal, we, small grave · What happens: leave, carry, not touch, be, dig up, look · To what, where: things, germs, animal, place

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 (dead animal, we, small grave), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 things	det
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
4	better	good	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 left	advcl
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 animal	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animal	amod
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carry	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animal	nmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	parataxis
16	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 touch	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 touch	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 touch	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 touch	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 touch	advmod
22	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 carry	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 touch	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 place	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 place	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 grave	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grave	amod
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 place	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 place	det
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 rest	case
33	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 place	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 something	punct
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 something	advmod
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 place	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 dig	mark
38	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 something	acl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 dig	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 look	mark
41	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 dig	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		some things	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	carry	can	a dead animal on the road	germs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
3	not touch	present · do-support	we	animal		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
4	is a	present	a small grave	a place	of rest	tree rules
5	dig up	to-infinitive	a small grave not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	to-infinitive	a small grave not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:4.

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. 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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