Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 5

One day a very ill old pet may be suffering with no cure, and the vet and family may choose to put it to sleep gently and without pain.

Who acts: ill old pet, vet · What happens: suffer, choose, put, sleep · To what, where: pet

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 (ill old pet, vet), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffering	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pet	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pet	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pet	amod
7	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffering	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 suffering	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 suffering	aux
10	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 cure	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cure	det
13	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 choose	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 choose	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vet	det
17	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 choose	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 family	cc
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vet	conj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 choose	aux
21	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 suffering	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 put	mark
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 choose	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	advcl
27	gently	gently	ADV	_	26 sleep	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pain	cc
29	without	without	ADP	_	30 pain	case
30	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gently	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 suffering	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	may · progressive	a ill old pet		day	with no cure	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	choose	may	the vet and family				tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	the vet and family not said here	pet			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the vet and family not said here			gently property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:5.

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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