--- title: Kindness means handling animals gently, never teasing them, letting… — Caring for pets · tree and pragmatics description: Kindness means handling animals gently, never teasing them, letting them rest, and remembering that a pet is a promise for its whole life, not a toy for a few weeks. Who acts: Kindness, lilies, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/4/) [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/) / [Caring for pets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/) / 4 # Caring for pets, sentence 4 Kindness means handling animals gently, never teasing them, letting them rest, and remembering that a pet is a promise for its whole life, not a toy for a few weeks. **Who acts:** Kindness, lilies, pet · **What happens:** mean, handle, not tease, let, rest, remember · **To what, where:** animals, lilies, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets» 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 (Kindness, lilies, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:4 # text = Kindness means handling animals gently, never teasing them, letting them rest, and remembering that a pet is a promise for its whole life, not a toy for a few weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 027-caring-for-pets.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 1 Kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 handling handle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 remembering remember VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Kindness | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **handle** | gerund | | animals | | | | gently *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 3 | **not** **tease** | gerund | | lilies *= lily* | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **let** | gerund | | lilies *= lily* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **rest** | infinitive | lilies *= lily* *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **remember** | gerund | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | a pet | a promise | | | | for pet's whole life | tree rules | 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:027-caring-for-pets.lesson:4`. **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. **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: [Caring for pets, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/3/) - next →: [Caring for pets, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/27-caring-for-pets/)