--- title: With pets, adults often hide death from children: "Rex went to live… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: With pets, adults often hide death from children: "Rex went to live on a farm" may mean Rex died or was put down. Who acts: adults, Rex. 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 2 With pets, adults often hide death from children: "Rex went to live on a farm" may mean Rex died or was put down. **Who acts:** adults, Rex · **What happens:** hide, go, live, mean, die, put down · **To what, where:** death, farm · **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, Rex), 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:2 # text = With pets, adults often hide death from children: "Rex went to live on a farm" may mean Rex died or was 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Rex Rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 Rex Rex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 27 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed hedge=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | adults | death | | | | with pets; from children; often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Rex | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rex *not said here* | | | a farm | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location | | 4 | **mean** | may | Rex *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **die** | past | Rex | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **put down** | past · passive | Rex *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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/)