Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 17
When an illness cannot be fixed and a pet is in pain, the vet can put it to sleep gently and without pain; the family decides together with the vet, and it is a kind choice.
Who acts: pet, vet, family · What happens: not fix, be, put, sleep, decide · To what, where: illness, pain, pet, kind choice
This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 fixed | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 illness | det |
| 3 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fixed | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fixed | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fixed | aux:pass |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 put | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pain | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pet | det |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pain | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pain | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pain | case |
| 13 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vet | det |
| 16 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 put | advcl |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 sleep | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pain | cc |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 pain | case |
| 25 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 decides | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 family | det |
| 28 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 decides | nsubj |
| 29 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | parataxis |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 29 decides | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 vet | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 vet | det |
| 33 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 decides | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 choice | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 choice | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 choice | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 choice | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 choice | det |
| 39 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 choice | amod |
| 40 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 decides | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fix | can · passive | a illness | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a pet | pain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | can | the vet | pet | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | the vet not said here | gently property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | decide | present | the family | with the vet; together property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with vet=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | pet | a kind choice | tree rules |
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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:17.
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): R7-rel-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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