The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 14
Reminders like a lead or a bowl can hurt; some families put them away for a while, others keep them close, and both are fine.
Who acts: Reminders, families, others, both · What happens: hurt, put away, keep, be · To what, where: Reminders, 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 (Reminders, families, others, both), 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 | Reminders | reminder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 lead | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lead | det |
| 4 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reminders | nmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 bowl | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bowl | det |
| 7 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lead | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 families | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 families | det |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fine | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fine | cc |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 fine | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fine | cop |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | Reminders like a lead or a bowl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | put away | past | some families | Reminders = reminder | while | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||
| 3 | keep | present | others | family | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | both | fine property | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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