What people leave behind, sentence 3

Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently, the family grieves and often holds a small funeral in the garden.

Who acts: Pets, vet, old dog, family · What happens: leave, help, die, grieve, hold · To what, where: gap, old dog, small funeral, garden

This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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 (Pets, vet, old dog, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gap	det
4	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 leave	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 helps	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vet	det
9	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helps	nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grieves	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 old	advmod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helps	obj
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 helps	xcomp
16	gently	gently	ADV	_	15 die	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grieves	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 family	det
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grieves	nsubj
20	grieves	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 holds	cc
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 holds	advmod
23	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grieves	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 funeral	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 funeral	amod
26	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holds	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holds	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Pets	a gap			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme
2	help	present	the vet	a old dog			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	die	infinitive	a old dog not said here			gently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	grieve	present	the family				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	hold	present	the family not said here	a small funeral	the garden	often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme in garden=Location

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, 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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:3.

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): no change. 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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