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title: Others are hard, and thoughtful people disagree: eating meat, zoos a… — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Others are hard, and thoughtful people disagree: eating meat, zoos and testing medicines on animals. Who acts: Others, thoughtful people. 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 3

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Others are hard, and thoughtful people disagree: eating meat, zoos and testing medicines on animals.

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**Who acts:** Others, thoughtful people · **What happens:** be, disagree, eat · **To what, where:** eating meat

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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 (Others, thoughtful people), 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:3
# text = Others are hard, and thoughtful people disagree: eating meat, zoos and testing medicines on animals.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	testing	testing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Others |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disagree** | present | thoughtful people | eating meat and zoos and testing medicines on animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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): R7-rel-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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