When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief, sentence 19
When a vet "puts an animal to sleep" (also "puts it down"), the vet helps a very ill animal die peacefully without pain; families choose it to end suffering.
Who acts: vet, ill animal, families · What happens: put, put down, help, die, choose, end · To what, where: animal, suffering
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of grief» of the reflection 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 (vet, ill animal, families), 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 | _ | 5 puts | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 vet | det |
| 3 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 puts | punct |
| 5 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 helps | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 puts | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 puts | advmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 14 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puts | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 puts | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 puts | compound:prt |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 puts | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 helps | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vet | det |
| 21 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 helps | nsubj |
| 22 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 animal | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 ill | advmod |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animal | amod |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | nsubj |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 helps | xcomp |
| 28 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 27 die | advmod |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 pain | case |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 choose | punct |
| 32 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 choose | nsubj |
| 33 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 helps | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 choose | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 end | mark |
| 36 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 choose | advcl |
| 37 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 end | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | present | a vet | a animal | sleep obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent animal=Goal | |||
| 2 | put down in a quote | present | a vet not said here | animal | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 3 | help | present | the vet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | a ill animal | without pain; peacefully property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | choose | present | families | animal | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | end | to-infinitive | families not said here | suffering | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suffering=Eventuality |
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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:19.
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): R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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