--- title: A girl in Texas did not notice her old dog had stopped eating and wa… — How pets feel and saying goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas did not notice her old dog had stopped eating and was hiding; by the time the vet saw him, his illness was much harder to treat. Who acts: girl, old dog, vet, illness. 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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 (girl, old dog, vet, illness), 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:7 # text = A girl in Texas did not notice her old dog had stopped eating and was hiding; by the time the vet saw him, his illness was much harder to treat. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 13 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 much much ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 parataxis _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | a girl in Texas | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **stop** | past · perfect | girl's old dog | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | girl's old dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hide** | past · progressive | girl's old dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | past | the vet | Texas | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | past | Texas's illness | | | | time | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **treat** | to-infinitive | Texas's illness *not said here* | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:066-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:7`. **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): no change. **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: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/6/) - next →: [How pets feel and saying goodbye, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/66-how-pets-feel-and-saying-goodbye/)