--- title: Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing l… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing line, and ducks and birds get caught in plastic drink rings, so we take line home and cut the rings before throwing them away. Who acts: rubbish, we. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Kindness to wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/) / 2 # Kindness to wild animals, sentence 2 Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing line, and ducks and birds get caught in plastic drink rings, so we take line home and cut the rings before throwing them away. **Who acts:** rubbish, we · **What happens:** hurt, tangle, catch, take, cut, throw away · **To what, where:** animals, swans, old fishing line, ducks, plastic drink rings, line This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology 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 (rubbish, we), 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:2 # text = Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing line, and ducks and birds get caught in plastic drink rings, so we take line home and cut the rings before throwing them away. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound 31 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 advcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | can | Our rubbish | animals | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | | 2 | **tangle** | present · passive | | swans | | old fishing line | | | tree rules | | 3 | **catch** | present · passive | | ducks and birds | | plastic drink rings | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | we | line | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme | | 5 | **cut** | present | we *not said here* | the rings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | | 6 | **throw away** | gerund | we *not said here* | animals *= animal* | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/1/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)