--- title: Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings,… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps. Who acts: Animals, cutting. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Kindness to wild animals, sentence 9 Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps. **Who acts:** Animals, cutting · **What happens:** get, catch, cut, throw away, help · **To what, where:** heads, plastic drink rings, rings 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 (Animals, cutting), 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:9 # text = Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps. # 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): no change 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 15 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | can | Animals | animals's heads or beaks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | | 2 | **catch** | participle | Animals *not said here* | | | plastic drink rings | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cut** | gerund | | the rings | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | | 4 | **throw away** | gerund | | rings *= ring* | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | cutting | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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. 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