How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 6

She told her mum, who explained the dog had simply grown old, and together they planted a flower in his memory.

Who acts: girl, mum, dog, Pets · What happens: tell, explain, grow, plant · To what, where: mum, flower, memory · 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 (girl, mum, dog, Pets), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 explained	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 explained	nsubj
7	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mum	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grown	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux
11	simply	simply	ADV	_	12 grown	advmod
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 explained	ccomp
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grown	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 planted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 planted	cc
16	together	together	ADV	_	18 planted	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 planted	nsubj
18	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 flower	det
20	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planted	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 memory	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 memory	nmod:poss
23	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	girl		girl's mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	explain speech: assert	past	girl's mum					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	past · perfect	the dog				old, simply property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	plant	past	Pets = pet	a flower		Texas's memory	together property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in memory=Destination

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:6.

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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