--- title: Hurting an animal is wrong; doing something cruel when angry means t… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics description: Hurting an animal is wrong; doing something cruel when angry means the anger needs help, and grown-ups can teach better ways to deal with it. Who acts: Hurting, doing, anger, grown ups. 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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, doing, anger, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:14 # text = Hurting an animal is wrong; doing something cruel when angry means the anger needs help, and grown-ups can teach better ways to deal with it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | gerund | | a animal | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Hurting | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **mean** | present | doing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **need** | present | the anger | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | can | grown ups | better ways | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | | 8 | **deal** | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | better ways *not said here* | | | | with up | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:14`. **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): 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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