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title: Building on land can destroy animals' homes (habitats), so human nee… — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Building on land can destroy animals' homes (habitats), so human needs and animal needs must be balanced. Who acts: Building. A sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Animals, sentence 16

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Building on land can destroy animals' homes (habitats), so human needs and animal needs must be balanced.

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**Who acts:** Building · **What happens:** destroy, balance · **To what, where:** homes, human needs

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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 (Building), 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:16
# text = Building on land can destroy animals' homes (habitats), so human needs and animal needs must be balanced.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	habitats	habitat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj
18	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **destroy** | can | Building on land | animals's homes |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument home=Patient |
| 2 | **balance** | must · passive |  | human needs and animal needs |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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