--- title: "Went to live on a farm" is what adults, especially in the US, tell… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: "Went to live on a farm" is what adults, especially in the US, tell children when a pet has died or been put down. Who acts: adults, pet. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/19/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: school rep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 19 "Went to live on a farm" is what adults, especially in the US, tell children when a pet has died or been put down. **Who acts:** adults, pet · **What happens:** go, live, tell, die, put down · **To what, where:** farm, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets» of the euphemisms 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 (adults, pet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:017-school-and-pets.lesson:19 # text = "Went to live on a farm" is what adults, especially in the US, tell children when a pet has died or been put down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 017-school-and-pets.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 11 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 13 especially especially ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 iobj _ _ 20 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | a farm | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | adults | | children | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient what=Topic | | 4 | **die** | present · perfect | a pet | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **put down** | participle · passive | a pet *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | 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:euphemisms:017-school-and-pets.lesson:19`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/)