The vet, sentence 14
When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die peacefully; this is called putting to sleep.
Who acts: pet, vet, wound · What happens: be, suffer, help, die, call, put · To what, where: wound, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology 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 (pet, vet, wound), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pet | det |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 help | advcl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 ill | cc |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 suffering | cc |
| 10 | suffering | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 old | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 vet | det |
| 13 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 help | xcomp |
| 18 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 17 die | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 help | parataxis |
| 23 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sleep | case |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 putting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a pet | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a pet not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | a pet not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | help | can | a vet | wound | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | infinitive | wound not said here | peacefully property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | call | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | put | gerund | to sleep | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:biology:227-the-vet.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×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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