--- title: Meat is the muscle of an animal that was killed for food; in Britain… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics description: Meat is the muscle of an animal that was killed for food; in Britain the law says animals at an abattoir must usually be made unconscious first so they do not feel it. Who acts: Meat, law, babies. 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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 (Meat, law, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:9 # text = Meat is the muscle of an animal that was killed for food; in Britain the law says animals at an abattoir must usually be made unconscious first so they do not feel it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.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 1 Meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 abattoir abattoir NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 usually usually ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ _ 27 unconscious unconscious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 advmod _ _ 29 so so SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Meat | the muscle | | | | of a animal | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | past · passive | | a animal | | | | for food | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the law | | | Britain | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | must · passive | | animals at a abattoir | | | | first, unconscious, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | babies *= baby* | meat | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:9`. **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. **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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