How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 21
Being told the truth gently about a pet's death helps children grieve better than being told a story.
Who acts: children, pet · What happens: tell, help, grieve, die · To what, where: truth, children, story · 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 (children, 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | aux:pass |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 helps | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 told | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pet | det |
| 8 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 pet | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 truth | nmod |
| 11 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 helps | obj |
| 13 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 helps | xcomp |
| 14 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 grieve | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 grieve | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund · passive | the truth | about a pet's death; gently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: truth=Recipient about death=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help | present | children | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grieve | infinitive | children not said here | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund · passive | children not said here | a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: story=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | die | a pet | nom death «event 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:21.
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): no change. 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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