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title: "Gone to doggy heaven" is a gentle, half-joking way to tell a child… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gone to doggy heaven" is a gentle, half-joking way to tell a child the dog died. Who acts: dog. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Soft words for hard things: school reports and teachers and animals and pets, sentence 21

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"Gone to doggy heaven" is a gentle, half-joking way to tell a child the dog died.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** go, joke, be, tell, die · **To what, where:** doggy heaven, gentle joking way, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dog), 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:21
# text = "Gone to doggy heaven" is a gentle, half-joking way to tell a child the dog died.
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	doggy	doggy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | doggy heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a gentle joking way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | a child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **die** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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:21`.

**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/).

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