Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 19

"Went to live on a farm" is what adults, especially in the US, tell children when a pet has died or been put down.

Who acts: adults, pet · What happens: go, live, tell, die, put down · To what, where: farm, children · 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 (adults, pet), 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 Went	punct
2	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 is	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 live	mark
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Went	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Went	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tell	obj
11	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 adults	punct
13	especially	especially	ADV	_	16 US	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 US	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 US	det
16	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 adults	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 US	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 is	ccomp
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	iobj
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 died	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pet	det
22	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 died	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 died	aux
24	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tell	advcl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 put	aux:pass
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 died	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 put	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	past				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live in a quote	to-infinitive			a farm	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	adults	children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient what=Topic
4	die	present · perfect	a pet			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	put down	participle · passive	a pet not said here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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:19.

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): R6-punct-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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