--- title: "Free to a good home" means the owner no longer wants the animal and… — Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and… · tree and pragmatics description: "Free to a good home" means the owner no longer wants the animal and is giving it away. Who acts: owner. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/16/) [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: animals an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/) / 16 # Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty, sentence 16 "Free to a good home" means the owner no longer wants the animal and is giving it away. **Who acts:** owner · **What happens:** mean, want, give away · **To what, where:** animal, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» 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 (owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:018-pets-and-money.lesson:16 # text = "Free to a good home" means the owner no longer wants the animal and is giving it away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 018-pets-and-money.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 no no ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** | present | the owner | the animal | | | | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot animal=Theme | | 3 | **give away** | present · progressive | the owner *not said here* | home | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:018-pets-and-money.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: animals an…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/15/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: animals an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/)