The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 3

Many people see this as mercy, a last kindness that stops suffering; Christians often say caring for an animal includes not letting it suffer, while Buddhists and some others feel very uneasy about ending any life, and good people can feel differently.

Who acts: Many people, last kindness, Christians, caring, animal, Buddhists · What happens: see, stop, suffer, say, care, include · To what, where: this, animal, life · 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 (Many people, last kindness, Christians, caring), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 see	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kindness	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kindness	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kindness	amod
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mercy	appos
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stops	nsubj
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kindness	acl:relcl
13	suffering	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stops	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
18	caring	care	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 includes	csubj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 animal	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 animal	det
21	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caring	obl
22	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 letting	advmod
24	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 includes	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 letting	obj
26	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 letting	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Buddhists	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 feel	mark
29	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 feel	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 others	cc
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 others	det
32	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Buddhists	conj
33	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	advcl
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 uneasy	advmod
35	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 feel	xcomp
36	about	about	SCONJ	_	37 ending	mark
37	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 uneasy	advcl
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 life	det
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ending	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 feel	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 feel	cc
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 people	amod
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 feel	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 feel	aux
45	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	conj
46	differently	differently	ADV	_	45 feel	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	Many people	this	as mercy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus as mercy=Attribute
2	stop	present	a last kindness			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	suffer	gerund	a last kindness not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	Christians		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	care	gerund			for a animal	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for animal=Theme
6	include	present	caring			tree rules
7	not let	gerund	caring not said here	animal		tree rules
8	suffer	infinitive	animal not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	feel	present	Buddhists and some others		uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	end	gerund	Buddhists and some others not said here	any life		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality
11	feel	can	good people		differently property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:3.

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): R8-pos-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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