Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 3

Vets and owners also use soft words for the operation that stops a pet from having babies: "fixed", "done", "seen to".

Who acts: Vets, operation · What happens: use, stop, have, fix, do, see to · To what, where: soft words, pet, babies

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 (Vets, operation), 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	Vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 owners	cc
3	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Vets	conj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 operation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 operation	det
10	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stops	nsubj
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 operation	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pet	det
14	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stops	obj
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 having	mark
16	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stops	advcl
17	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 having	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
20	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 use	advcl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fixed	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fixed	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 seen	compound:prt
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Vets and owners	soft words	for the operation	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for operation=Eventuality
2	stop	present	the operation	a pet		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pet=Eventuality
3	have	gerund	the operation not said here	babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
4	fix in a quote	participle	Vets and owners not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	do in a quote	participle	Vets and owners not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see to in a quote	participle	Vets and owners not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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