--- title: Owners choose to have a pet put to sleep to stop it suffering, and i… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Owners choose to have a pet put to sleep to stop it suffering, and it is one of the hardest decisions a family makes. Who acts: Owners, pet, injection, family. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owners, pet, injection, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:12 # text = Owners choose to have a pet put to sleep to stop it suffering, and it is one of the hardest decisions a family makes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 suffering suffer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present | Owners | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Owners *not said here* | a pet | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a pet *not said here* | injection | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **suffer** | gerund | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | injection | one | | | | of the hardest decisions | tree rules | | 8 | **make** | present | a family | the hardest decisions *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What people leave behind, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/11/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)