The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 5

Nobody can see heaven, so nobody knows for certain where Biscuit is now; Mrs Patel at Sunday school says, «The Bible doesn't tell us clearly, but God cares for every sparrow, and I trust God with Biscuit,» which is more honest than a promise nobody can keep.

Who acts: Nobody, Biscuit, Mrs, Bible, God · What happens: see, know, be, say, not tell, care · To what, where: heaven, us, God, promise · 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 (Nobody, Biscuit, Mrs, Bible), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 knows	advmod
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 certain	case
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knows	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 now	conj
12	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 now	nsubj:outer
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 now	cop
14	now	now	ADV	_	8 knows	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Mrs	punct
16	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 says	nsubj
17	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mrs	flat
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 school	case
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 school	compound
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Mrs	nmod
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Bible	det
25	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tell	nsubj
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 tell	advmod
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 says	ccomp
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	28 tell	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cares	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 cares	cc
33	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 cares	nsubj
34	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 sparrow	case
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 sparrow	det
37	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cares	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 trust	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 trust	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 trust	nsubj
41	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 cares	conj
42	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 trust	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 Biscuit	case
44	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 trust	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 honest	punct
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	49 more	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 honest	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 honest	cop
49	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 honest	advmod
50	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	advcl
51	than	than	SCONJ	_	56 keep	mark
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 promise	det
53	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 honest	obl
54	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	56 keep	nsubj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 keep	aux
56	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 promise	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	can	Nobody	heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus
2	know	present	nobody			for certain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	Biscuit			now property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	Mrs at Sunday school				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	the Bible		us	clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
6	care in a quote	present	God			for every sparrow	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for sparrow=Theme
7	trust in a quote	present	Mrs at Sunday school = mrs		God	with Biscuit	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent god=Recipient with biscuit=Theme
8	is	present				a promise obl; honest property	tree rules
9	keep	can	nobody	a promise not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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:5.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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