--- title: Small animals are easily frightened, because to them we are huge; th… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Small animals are easily frightened, because to them we are huge; they feel safe with people who move slowly and speak softly. Who acts: we, animals, people. 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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 (we, animals, people), 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:2 # text = Small animals are easily frightened, because to them we are huge; they feel safe with people who move slowly and speak softly. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 easily easily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 softly softly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | present · passive | | Small animals | | | | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | we | | | | | huge *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | present | animals *= animal* | | | | | with people; safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **move** | present | people | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | people *not said here* | | | | | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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): 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/1/) - next →: [Kindness to animals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)