--- title: Vets and owners also use soft words for the operation that stops a p… — Soft words for hard things: school reports and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Vets and owners also use soft words for the operation that stops a pet from having babies: "fixed", "done", "seen to". Who acts: Vets, operation. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vets, operation), 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:3 # text = Vets and owners also use soft words for the operation that stops a pet from having babies: "fixed", "done", "seen to". # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 operation operation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 from from SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 17 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Vets and owners | soft words | | | | for the operation | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for operation=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | present | the operation | a pet | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pet=Eventuality | | 3 | **have** | gerund | the operation *not said here* | babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 4 | **fix** *in a quote* | participle | Vets and owners *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | Vets and owners *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see to** *in a quote* | participle | Vets and owners *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: school rep…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/)