--- title: Wild animals act by instinct, not by right and wrong: the cat that l… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: Wild animals act by instinct, not by right and wrong: the cat that leaves a mouse on the doormat and the fox that gets into the chicken coop are not wicked, they are being a cat and a fox, so we fix the fence rather than punish the fox. Who acts: Wild animals, cat, fox, we. 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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 (Wild animals, cat, fox, we), 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:2 # text = Wild animals act by instinct, not by right and wrong: the cat that leaves a mouse on the doormat and the fox that gets into the chicken coop are not wicked, they are being a cat and a fox, so we fix the fence rather than punish the fox. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 act act VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 doormat doormat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 coop coop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 fix fix VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 51 cc _ _ 50 than than ADP IN _ 49 fixed _ _ 51 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 conj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 . . 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 | **act** | present | Wild animals | | | | | by instinct; by right and wrong | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | present | the cat | a mouse | | the doormat and the fox | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on doormat=Location | | 3 | **get** | present | the fox | | | the chicken coop | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coop=Destination | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | the cat | | | | | wicked *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | | a cat and a fox | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fix** | present | we | the fence | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fence=Patient | | 7 | **punish** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the fox | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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. 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