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title: Litter on beaches and in rivers can trap or choke wild animals. — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Litter on beaches and in rivers can trap or choke wild animals. Who acts: Litter. 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 7

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Litter on beaches and in rivers can trap or choke wild animals.

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**Who acts:** Litter · **What happens:** trap, choke · **To what, where:** wild animals

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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 (Litter), 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:7
# text = Litter on beaches and in rivers can trap or choke wild animals.
# 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	Litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | Litter on beaches and rivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choke** | infinitive | Litter on beaches and rivers *not said here* |  | wild animals |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=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:7`.

**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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