--- title: When a vet "puts an animal to sleep" (also "puts it down"), the vet… — When someone dies: guilt, numbness and waves of… · tree and pragmatics description: When a vet "puts an animal to sleep" (also "puts it down"), the vet helps a very ill animal die peacefully without pain; families choose it to end suffering. Who acts: vet, ill animal, families. 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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 (vet, ill animal, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:19 # text = When a vet "puts an animal to sleep" (also "puts it down"), the vet helps a very ill animal die peacefully without pain; families choose it to end suffering. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 12 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 28 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 suffering suffering NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** *in a quote* | present | a vet | | a animal | | | sleep *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent animal=Goal | | 2 | **put down** *in a quote* | present | a vet *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 3 | **help** | present | the vet | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **die** | infinitive | a ill animal | | | | | without pain; peacefully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **choose** | present | families | animal | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **end** | to-infinitive | families *not said here* | suffering | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suffering=Eventuality | 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:reflection:001-when-someone-dies-guilt-numbness-and-waves-of-grief.lesson:19`. **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 ×5, 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. 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