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title: Some questions about animals are easy: never hurt a pet for fun. — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Some questions about animals are easy: never hurt a pet for fun. Who acts: questions. 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 2

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Some questions about animals are easy: never hurt a pet for fun.

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**Who acts:** questions · **What happens:** be, not hurt · **To what, where:** pet

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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 (questions), 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:2
# text = Some questions about animals are easy: never hurt a pet for fun.
# 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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some questions about animals |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive |  | a pet |  |  |  | for fun | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:2`.

**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. **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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