--- title: Flushing a dead fish can spread illness to wild fish, and many famil… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: Flushing a dead fish can spread illness to wild fish, and many families prefer to bury a pet in the garden. Who acts: Flushing, many families. 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 dependency tree --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 8 Flushing a dead fish can spread illness to wild fish, and many families prefer to bury a pet in the garden. **Who acts:** Flushing, many families · **What happens:** flush, spread, prefer, bury · **To what, where:** dead fish, illness, pet, garden 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 (Flushing, many families), 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:8 # text = Flushing a dead fish can spread illness to wild fish, and many families prefer to bury a pet in the garden. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Flushing flush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 prefer prefer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | **flush** | gerund | | a dead fish | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Source | | 2 | **spread** | can | Flushing | illness | | | | to wild fish | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location illness=Theme | | 3 | **prefer** | present | many families | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **bury** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many families *not said here* | a pet | | the garden | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pet=Theme in garden=Destination | 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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×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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