--- title: A snail is a living creature; killing animals for fun is unkind, and… — Life is precious: wonder and gratitude · tree and pragmatics description: A snail is a living creature; killing animals for fun is unkind, and Buddhists and Jains try not to harm any living thing at all. Who acts: snail, killing, Buddhists. 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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 (snail, killing, Buddhists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:10 # text = A snail is a living creature; killing animals for fun is unkind, and Buddhists and Jains try not to harm any living thing at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 8 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 Buddhists Buddhist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Jains jain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a snail | a living creature | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | gerund | | animals | | | | for fun | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | killing | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | present | Buddhists and Jains | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **harm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Buddhists and Jains *not said here* | any living thing | | all | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer | 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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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