--- title: One extra pinch of food is very unlikely to kill a fish; an honest m… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: One extra pinch of food is very unlikely to kill a fish; an honest mistake is not the same as meaning harm. Who acts: One extra pinch, honest mistake. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/10/) [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/) / [When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/) / 10 # When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 10 One extra pinch of food is very unlikely to kill a fish; an honest mistake is not the same as meaning harm. **Who acts:** One extra pinch, honest mistake · **What happens:** be, kill, not be, mean, pinch · **To what, where:** fish, harm, food This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» 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 (One extra pinch, honest mistake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:10 # text = One extra pinch of food is very unlikely to kill a fish; an honest mistake is not the same as meaning harm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pinch pinch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 unlikely unlikely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | One extra pinch of food | | | | | unlikely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | One extra pinch of food *not said here* | a fish | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | a honest mistake | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | gerund | a honest mistake *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic | | 5 | **pinch** | | | food | | | | | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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): 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. 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