--- title: When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die p… — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die peacefully; this is called putting to sleep. Who acts: pet, vet, wound. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/14/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/) / 14 # The vet, sentence 14 When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die peacefully; this is called putting to sleep. **Who acts:** pet, vet, wound · **What happens:** be, suffer, help, die, call, put · **To what, where:** wound, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology 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 (pet, vet, wound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:14 # text = When a pet is very old or ill and suffering, a vet can help it die peacefully; this is called putting to sleep. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 suffering suffer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 23 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 25 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a pet | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **suffer** | gerund | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **help** | can | a vet | wound | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **die** | infinitive | wound *not said here* | | | | | peacefully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put** | gerund | | | | | | to sleep | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:14`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The vet, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/13/) - next →: [The vet, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)