--- title: Animals can feel pain and fear, and cruelty to animals is wrong. — Animals · tree and pragmatics description: Animals can feel pain and fear, and cruelty to animals is wrong. Who acts: Animals, cruelty. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/6/) [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/) / 6 # Animals, sentence 6 Animals can feel pain and fear, and cruelty to animals is wrong. **Who acts:** Animals, cruelty · **What happens:** feel, be · **To what, where:** pain 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 (Animals, cruelty), 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:6 # text = Animals can feel pain and fear, and cruelty to animals is wrong. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | can | Animals | pain and fear | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | cruelty to animals | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/5/) - next →: [Animals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/46-animals/)