How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 16

When an animal is very ill and cannot get better, a vet can end its suffering painlessly; this is called putting it to sleep.

Who acts: animal, vet · What happens: be, not get, end, call, put, suffer · To what, where: suffering, this, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday 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 (animal, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 ill	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ill	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 end	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ill	conj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 get	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 end	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vet	det
14	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 end	aux
16	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 suffering	nmod:poss
18	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	obj
19	painlessly	painlessly	ADV	_	16 end	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 called	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 end	parataxis
24	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 called	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 putting	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 putting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 end	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a animal		ill property	tree rules
2	not get	can	a animal not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	end	can	a vet	animal's suffering	painlessly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suffering=Eventuality
4	call	present · passive		this		tree rules
5	put	gerund		animal	to sleep	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	suffer		animal			nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:16.

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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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