--- title: Wild animals live their own lives and are not pets or toys: the kind… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Wild animals live their own lives and are not pets or toys: the kind thing is to watch them calmly from a safe distance and let them be. Who acts: Wild animals, kind thing, lives. 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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, kind thing, lives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:0 # text = Wild animals live their own lives and are not pets or toys: the kind thing is to watch them calmly from a safe distance and let them be. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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): R1-cc-next ×2 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 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 27 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **not** **is a** | present | Wild animals *not said here* | pets or toys | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the kind thing | | | | | from a safe distance; calmly, watch *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | the kind thing *not said here* | lives *= life* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | infinitive | lives *= life* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Respecting wild animals, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/24/) - next →: [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/)