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title: Hurting or tormenting an animal is cruel, it can make the animal att… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Hurting or tormenting an animal is cruel, it can make the animal attack, and it is against the law. Who acts: Hurting, dog. 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 16

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Hurting or tormenting an animal is cruel, it can make the animal attack, and it is against the law.

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**Who acts:** Hurting, dog · **What happens:** hurt, torment, be, make · **To what, where:** animal, animal attack

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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 (Hurting, dog), 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:16
# text = Hurting or tormenting an animal is cruel, it can make the animal attack, and it is against the law.
# 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	Hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tormenting	torment	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **torment** | gerund |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Hurting |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | can | dog | the animal attack |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material attack=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present | dog |  |  |  |  | against the law | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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.

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