--- title: Most meat comes from farm animals; some people, vegetarians and vega… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Most meat comes from farm animals; some people, vegetarians and vegans, choose not to eat meat, and many Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarian because their faiths teach care for animal life. Who acts: Most meat, people, many Hindus, faiths. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most meat, people, many Hindus, faiths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:13 # text = Most meat comes from farm animals; some people, vegetarians and vegans, choose not to eat meat, and many Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarian because their faiths teach care for animal life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 vegetarians vegetarian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 vegans vegan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Hindus Hindu PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Buddhists Buddhist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 vegetarian vegetarian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 31 mark _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **come** | present | Most meat | | | | | from farm animals | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **choose** | present | some people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | many Hindus and Buddhists | | | | | vegetarian *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Hindus's faiths | care | | | | for animal life | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent care=Recipient | 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. 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