--- title: Some medicines are tested on animals to keep people safe; whether th… — Animals · tree and pragmatics description: Some medicines are tested on animals to keep people safe; whether this is right is a disputed question argued carefully on both sides; many say it should happen only when really needed, with as few animals and as little pain as possible. Who acts: this, many, it. A sentence of the lesson «Animals» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/) / 12 # Animals, sentence 12 Some medicines are tested on animals to keep people safe; whether this is right is a disputed question argued carefully on both sides; many say it should happen only when really needed, with as few animals and as little pain as possible. **Who acts:** this, many, it · **What happens:** test, keep, be, dispute, say, happen · **To what, where:** medicines, people, disputed question, sides · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics 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 (this, many, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:12 # text = Some medicines are tested on animals to keep people safe; whether this is right is a disputed question argued carefully on both sides; many say it should happen only when really needed, with as few animals and as little pain as possible. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 046-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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 csubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 disputed dispute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 20 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 27 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 really really ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 as as ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 42 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 45 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | present · passive | | some medicines | | | | on animals | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | this | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **dispute** | participle | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | a disputed question *not said here* | | both sides | | argue, carefully *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **happen** | should | it | | | | | with few animals and little pain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **need** | participle | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:12`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/11/) - next →: [Animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/)