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title: Animals don't choose good or evil the way people do; their behaviour… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals don't choose good or evil the way people do; their behaviour has reasons like food, safety and temperature. Who acts: Animals, people, behaviour. A sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Pets and farm animals, sentence 15

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Animals don't choose good or evil the way people do; their behaviour has reasons like food, safety and temperature.

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**Who acts:** Animals, people, behaviour · **What happens:** not choose, do, have · **To what, where:** good, way, reasons

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pets and farm animals» of the myths 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 (Animals, people, behaviour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:15
# text = Animals don't choose good or evil the way people do; their behaviour has reasons like food, safety and temperature.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 007-pets-and-farm-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **choose** | present · do-support | Animals | good |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent good=Beneficiary way=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | people | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present | people's behaviour | reasons |  |  |  | like food and safety and temperature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |

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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.

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**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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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