Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 2

With pets, adults often hide death from children: "Rex went to live on a farm" may mean Rex died or was put down.

Who acts: adults, Rex · What happens: hide, go, live, mean, die, put down · To what, where: death, farm · 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, Rex), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 pets	case
2	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pets	punct
4	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 hide	advmod
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 live	mark
15	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 farm	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 farm	det
18	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	aux
21	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	conj
22	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	ccomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux:pass
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 died	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 put	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed hedge=1

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	present	adults	death		with pets; from children; often property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	past	Rex				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live in a quote	to-infinitive	Rex not said here		a farm		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location
4	mean	may	Rex not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die	past	Rex				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	put down	past · passive	Rex 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:2.

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, 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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