--- title: One day a very ill old pet may be suffering with no cure, and the ve… — Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying go… · tree and pragmatics description: One day a very ill old pet may be suffering with no cure, and the vet and family may choose to put it to sleep gently and without pain. Who acts: ill old pet, vet. A sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/5/) [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/) / [Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye/) / 5 # Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 5 One day a very ill old pet may be suffering with no cure, and the vet and family may choose to put it to sleep gently and without pain. **Who acts:** ill old pet, vet · **What happens:** suffer, choose, put, sleep · **To what, where:** pet This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (ill old pet, vet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:5 # text = One day a very ill old pet may be suffering with no cure, and the vet and family may choose to put it to sleep gently and without pain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux _ _ 10 suffering suffer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 27 gently gently ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suffer** | may · progressive | a ill old pet | | | | day | with no cure | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **choose** | may | the vet and family | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | the vet and family *not said here* | pet | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the vet and family *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:5`. **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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