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title: Animals can get trapped in plastic rings by the neck, beak or legs. — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals can get trapped in plastic rings by the neck, beak or legs. Who acts: neck. 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 6

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Animals can get trapped in plastic rings by the neck, beak or legs.

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**Who acts:** neck · **What happens:** trap · **To what, where:** Animals, plastic rings

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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 (neck), 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:6
# text = Animals can get trapped in plastic rings by the neck, beak or legs.
# 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): no change
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | can · passive | the neck and beak or legs | Animals |  | plastic rings |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in ring=Destination |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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