--- title: Wild animals should be watched and photographed, not taken home: a p… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Wild animals should be watched and photographed, not taken home: a pond frog can die in a tank, and moving frogs between ponds spreads disease. Who acts: pond frog. 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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 (pond frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:11 # text = Wild animals should be watched and photographed, not taken home: a pond frog can die in a tank, and moving frogs between ponds spreads disease. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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 ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 photographed photograph VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 24 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 between between ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:parataxis 28 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | should · passive | | Wild animals | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **photograph** | participle | | | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **take** | participle | | | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **die** | can | a pond frog | | | | | in a tank | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tank=Attribute | | 5 | **move** | gerund | | frogs | | | | between ponds | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme frog=Result | | 6 | **spread** | present | a pond frog *not said here* | disease | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:11`. **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 ×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: [What a child can do for nature, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/10/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)