When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 11

«Gone to a better place» and «gone to sleep» are soft ways of saying «died»; clear words help children most.

Who acts: soft ways, clear words · What happens: go, be, say, die, help · To what, where: better place, soft ways, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (soft ways, clear words), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Gone	punct
2	Gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ways	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Gone	obl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Gone	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Gone	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ways	cop
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 saying	mark
18	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ways	acl
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ways	punct
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 help	nsubj
25	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ways	parataxis
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 help	obj
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 help	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ways	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	participle				a better place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	is a	present		soft ways			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	soft ways not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die in a quote	past					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	help	present	clear words		children		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:11.

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 ×1, 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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