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title: Kindness to animals is in small, everyday things: how we move near t… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Kindness to animals is in small, everyday things: how we move near them and what we throw away. Who acts: Kindness, we. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kindness to animals, sentence 0

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Kindness to animals is in small, everyday things: how we move near them and what we throw away.

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**Who acts:** Kindness, we · **What happens:** be, move, throw away

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday 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 (Kindness, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:0
# text = Kindness to animals is in small, everyday things: how we move near them and what we throw away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 207-kindness-to-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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	conj	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Kindness to animals |  |  |  |  | everyday things *obl*; small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present | we |  |  |  |  | near things *= thing* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **throw away** | present | we |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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