--- title: Kindness also means thinking about what we leave behind: a released… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Kindness also means thinking about what we leave behind: a released balloon, a lost fishing hook or an uncut plastic drink ring can trap or kill an animal far away. Who acts: Kindness, we, released balloon. 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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 (Kindness, we, released balloon), 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:3 # text = Kindness also means thinking about what we leave behind: a released balloon, a lost fishing hook or an uncut plastic drink ring can trap or kill an animal far away. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 behind behind ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 uncut uncut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Kindness | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Kindness *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 3 | **leave behind** | present | we | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **release** | participle | | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trap** | can | a released balloon and a lost fishing hook or a uncut drink ring | a animal | | | | away *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 7 | **kill** | infinitive | a released balloon and a lost fishing hook or a uncut drink ring *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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