--- title: Being kind to wild animals often means leaving them alone: a frog on… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Being kind to wild animals often means leaving them alone: a frog on a path can be gently moved aside with wet hands or not touched at all, because soap and sun cream on our skin can harm its thin skin, and an ant nest should not be poked just for fun. Who acts: kind, soap cream. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, soap cream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:1 # text = Being kind to wild animals often means leaving them alone: a frog on a path can be gently moved aside with wet hands or not touched at all, because soap and sun cream on our skin can harm its thin skin, and an ant nest should not be poked just for fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 21 aside aside ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 32 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 poked poke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 53 just just ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to wild animals; kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | kind | | | | | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | gerund | kind *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **move** | can · passive | | a frog on a path | | | | with wet hands; aside, gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | | 5 | **not** **touch** | participle | | | | all | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **harm** | can | soap cream on our skin | cream's thin skin | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer | | 7 | **not** **poke** | should · passive | | a ant nest | | | | for fun | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/0/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)