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title: Children often wrongly blame themselves when a pet dies; most pets d… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Children often wrongly blame themselves when a pet dies; most pets die of old age or illness. Who acts: Children, pet, most pets. A sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How pets feel and saying goodbye, sentence 17

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Children often wrongly blame themselves when a pet dies; most pets die of old age or illness.

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**Who acts:** Children, pet, most pets · **What happens:** blame, die · **To what, where:** Children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How pets feel and saying goodbye» of the everyday 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 (Children, pet, most pets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:17
# text = Children often wrongly blame themselves when a pet dies; most pets die of old age or illness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.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
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod
3	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blame	blame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | present | Children | Children *= child* |  |  |  | often, wrongly *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | present | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **die** | present | most pets |  |  |  | of old age or illness |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer |

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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:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:17`.

**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. **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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