The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 7
Vets suggest this when an animal is very ill or in pain and cannot get better; it is often called a mercy.
Who acts: Vets, animal · What happens: suggest, be, not get, call · To what, where: this, animal · 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 (Vets, animal), 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 | Vets | vet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 suggest | nsubj |
| 2 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 suggest | obj |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ill | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 suggest | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 pain | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ill | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ill | conj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 suggest | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mercy | det |
| 24 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suggest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Vets | this | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a animal | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get | can | a animal not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | animal | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:7.
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): 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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