--- title: Plastic rings from drink packs can trap birds, turtles, fish and oth… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Plastic rings from drink packs can trap birds, turtles, fish and other animals by the neck, beak or legs, so we cut each ring before throwing them away. Who acts: Plastic rings, we. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/1/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) / 1 # Kindness to animals, sentence 1 Plastic rings from drink packs can trap birds, turtles, fish and other animals by the neck, beak or legs, so we cut each ring before throwing them away. **Who acts:** Plastic rings, we · **What happens:** trap, cut, throw away · **To what, where:** birds, ring, rings 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 (Plastic rings, 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:1 # text = Plastic rings from drink packs can trap birds, turtles, fish and other animals by the neck, beak or legs, so we cut each ring before throwing them 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 packs pack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trap** | can | Plastic rings from drink packs | birds and turtles and fish and other animals | | | | by the neck and beak or legs | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 2 | **cut** | present | we | each ring | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product | | 3 | **throw away** | gerund | we *not said here* | rings *= ring* | | | | 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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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 animals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/0/) - next →: [Kindness to animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)