--- title: Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is to watch quietly from a distance and leave their homes as you found them. Who acts: Wild animals, best way, you. 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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 (Wild animals, best way, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:0 # text = Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is to watch quietly from a distance and leave their homes as you found them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 070-respecting-wild-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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Wild animals | animals's own lives | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 2 | **love** | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* | lives *= life* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | the best way | | | | | from a distance; quietly, watch *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | infinitive | the best way *not said here* | animals's homes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | you | homes *= home* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/27/) - next →: [Respecting wild animals, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/)