--- title: Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protect… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger. Who acts: Foxes, chickens, stronger coop. A sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/14/) [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/) / [Garden burials, wild animals and a new…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/) / 14 # Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 14 Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger. **Who acts:** Foxes, chickens, stronger coop · **What happens:** hunt, be, protect · **To what, where:** chickens, hens This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (Foxes, chickens, stronger coop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:14 # text = Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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 ×2 1 Foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 coop coop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 15 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Foxes | chickens | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | chickens *= chicken* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **protect** | present | a stronger coop | | the hens | | | well *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Beneficiary | 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:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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