--- title: Hurting animals on purpose is cruelty; tell a trusted adult, who can… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Hurting animals on purpose is cruelty; tell a trusted adult, who can report it to an animal welfare organisation. Who acts: Hurting, you, trusted adult. 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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 (Hurting, you, trusted adult), 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:12 # text = Hurting animals on purpose is cruelty; tell a trusted adult, who can report it to an animal welfare organisation. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 welfare welfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 organisation organisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | gerund | | animals | | | | purpose *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Hurting | | | cruelty | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **report** | can | a trusted adult | adult | a welfare organisation | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to organisation=Recipient | 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. 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