The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 13

Some animals that are very ill or old hide in a quiet place; this is instinct, not a sign that they did not love their family.

Who acts: animals, this, tears · What happens: be, hide, not love · To what, where: quiet place, instinct, family

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 (animals, this, tears), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hide	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 ill	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	acl:relcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ill	conj
9	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 instinct	punct
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 instinct	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 instinct	cop
17	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hide	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sign	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sign	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 instinct	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 love	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 love	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 love	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 love	advmod
26	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sign	acl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 family	nmod:poss
28	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 love	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	some animals			ill property	tree rules
2	be		some animals not said here				tree rules
3	hide	present	some animals		a quiet place		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
4	is a	present	this	instinct			tree rules
5	not love	past · do-support	tears = tear	tears's family			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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