The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 8
The animal gets very sleepy and dies within a minute or two; it is quiet, and some families choose to stay with it.
Who acts: animal, families · What happens: get, die, be, choose, stay
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 (animal, families), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sleepy | advmod |
| 5 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dies | cc |
| 7 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 minute | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dies | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 two | cc |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 minute | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 quiet | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 quiet | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 quiet | cop |
| 16 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 choose | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 choose | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 families | det |
| 20 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 choose | nsubj |
| 21 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 quiet | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stay | mark |
| 23 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 choose | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the animal | sleepy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | die | present | the animal not said here | minute | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | present | animal | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choose | present | some families | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | some families not said here | with animal | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with it=Location |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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