The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 1

Picture Megan's family and their old dog, Biscuit: he can hardly stand and hurts every day, and Mum says, «We're not doing this because we don't love him.

Who acts: you, dog, Mum, We · What happens: picture, stand, hurt, say, not do, not love · To what, where: family, this, dog · 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 (you, dog, Mum, We), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 family	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Megan	case
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dog	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dog	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 family	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Biscuit	punct
10	Biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 family	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stand	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 stand	advmod
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Picture	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hurts	cc
17	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	conj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stand	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 says	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 says	cc
22	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 says	nsubj
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 doing	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 doing	punct
26	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 doing	nsubj
27	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 doing	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 doing	advmod
29	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 says	ccomp
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 doing	obj
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 love	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 love	nsubj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 love	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 love	advmod
35	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 doing	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 love	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Megan's family and family's old dog and Biscuit			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent family=Theme
2	stand	can	dog		day	hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	present	dog not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	Mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not do in a quote	present · progressive	We	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6	not love in a quote	present · do-support	we	dog			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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:1.

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, 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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