--- title: Some things are better left alone: a dead animal on the road can car… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics description: Some things are better left alone: a dead animal on the road can carry germs, so we do not touch it, and a small grave is a place of rest, not something to dig up to look. Who acts: dead animal, we, small grave. 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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 (dead animal, we, small grave), 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:4 # text = Some things are better left alone: a dead animal on the road can carry germs, so we do not touch it, and a small grave is a place of rest, not something to dig up to look. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advcl _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 16 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present · passive | | some things | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | can | a dead animal on the road | germs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 3 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | we | animal | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a small grave | a place | | | | of rest | tree rules | | 5 | **dig up** | to-infinitive | a small grave *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | a small grave *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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