Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 17
"Put down" means an animal was killed, usually by a vet.
Who acts: vet · What happens: put down, mean, kill · To what, where: animal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 Put | compound:prt |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 killed | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 vet | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vet | det |
| 14 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl:agent |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down in a quote | infinitive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | a vet | a animal | usually property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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:euphemisms:017-school-and-pets.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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