--- title: Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently,… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently, the family grieves and often holds a small funeral in the garden. Who acts: Pets, vet, old dog, family. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 3 # What people leave behind, sentence 3 Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently, the family grieves and often holds a small funeral in the garden. **Who acts:** Pets, vet, old dog, family · **What happens:** leave, help, die, grieve, hold · **To what, where:** gap, old dog, small funeral, garden This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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 (Pets, vet, old dog, 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:3 # text = Pets leave a gap too: when the vet helps a very old dog die gently, the family grieves and often holds a small funeral in the garden. # 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 Pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 16 gently gently ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grieves grieve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | Pets | a gap | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | the vet | a old dog | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **die** | infinitive | a old dog *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **grieve** | present | the family | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hold** | present | the family *not said here* | a small funeral | | the garden | | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme in garden=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](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: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): 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/2/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)