The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 0

When an animal is very old or ill, in pain and will not get better, a vet can give it an injection so that it dies peacefully and without pain; people call this «putting to sleep» or «putting down», but it is not real sleep, and the animal will not wake up.

Who acts: animal, vet, people · What happens: be, not get, give, die, call, put · To what, where: injection, animal, this, real sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 (animal, vet, people), 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 old	mark
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 give	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 ill	cc
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pain	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 pain	case
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	conj
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 get	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 vet	det
19	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 injection	det
24	injection	injection	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 dies	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dies	nsubj
28	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 give	advcl
29	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	28 dies	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pain	cc
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 pain	case
32	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 peacefully	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 call	punct
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 call	nsubj
35	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dies	conj
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 call	obj
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 putting	punct
38	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 call	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sleep	mark
40	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 putting	xcomp
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 putting	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 putting	cc
43	«	«	PUNCT	_	44 putting	punct
44	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 putting	conj
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 putting	compound:prt
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 putting	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sleep	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 sleep	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sleep	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 sleep	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 sleep	advmod
52	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 sleep	amod
53	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wake	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 wake	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 animal	det
57	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wake	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 wake	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 wake	advmod
60	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 give	advcl
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 wake	compound:prt
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a animal			old property	tree rules
2	be		a animal not said here				tree rules
3	not get	future	a animal not said here			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	give	can	a vet	a injection	animal		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient injection=Theme
5	die	present	vet			peacefully property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	call speech: assert	present	people	this			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
7	put in a quote	gerund	people not said here				tree rules
8	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	put down in a quote	gerund	people not said here				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
10	not is a	present	vet	real sleep			tree rules
11	not wake up	future	the animal				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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