Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 2

Owners say a pet was "rehomed" or is "free to a good home" so giving it away sounds kind rather than unwanted.

Who acts: Owners, giving · What happens: say, rehome, be, give away, sound · To what, where: pet, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (Owners, giving), 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	Owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pet	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rehomed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rehomed	aux:pass
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 rehomed	punct
7	rehomed	rehome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 rehomed	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 free	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 free	cop
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 free	punct
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rehomed	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 home	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 home	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 home	amod
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 free	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 free	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 sounds	advmod
19	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sounds	csubj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 giving	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 giving	advmod
22	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sounds	xcomp
24	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 kind	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	24 rather	fixed
26	unwanted	unwanted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kind	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Owners			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rehome in a quote	past · passive		a pet		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present			to a good home; free property	tree rules
4	give away	gerund		home	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	sound	present	giving		kind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:018-pets-and-money.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): R5-strong ×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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