--- title: For a child today this means being kind and wise: feeding your pet e… — Animals · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today this means being kind and wise: feeding your pet every day, asking an adult before you "rescue" a hurt bird, and listening to a vegetarian friend without mocking them. Who acts: this, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/5/) [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/) / 5 # Animals, sentence 5 For a child today this means being kind and wise: feeding your pet every day, asking an adult before you "rescue" a hurt bird, and listening to a vegetarian friend without mocking them. **Who acts:** this, adult · **What happens:** mean, be, feed, ask, rescue, listen · **To what, where:** pet, adult, hurt bird, reasons · **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, adult), 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:5 # text = For a child today this means being kind and wise: feeding your pet every day, asking an adult before you "rescue" a hurt bird, and listening to a vegetarian friend without mocking them. # 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): no change 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 rescue rescue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 vegetarian vegetarian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 without without SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 mocking mock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feed** | gerund | | | your pet | | day | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Recipient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 6 | **rescue** *in a quote* | present | a adult *= adult* | a hurt bird | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 7 | **listen** | gerund | | | | | | to a vegetarian friend | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to friend=Theme | | 8 | **mock** | gerund | | reasons *= reason* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/4/) - next →: [Animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/)