--- title: When a pet dies, its body has stopped working for good: it is not sl… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: When a pet dies, its body has stopped working for good: it is not sleeping, it will not swim, run or sing again, and it is almost never anyone's fault. Who acts: pet, body. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/0/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/) / 0 # When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 0 When a pet dies, its body has stopped working for good: it is not sleeping, it will not swim, run or sing again, and it is almost never anyone's fault. **Who acts:** pet, body · **What happens:** die, stop, work, not sleep, not swim, run · **To what, where:** fault This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (pet, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:0 # text = When a pet dies, its body has stopped working for good: it is not sleeping, it will not swim, run or sing again, and it is almost never anyone's fault. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 27 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **die** | present | a pet | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **stop** | present · perfect | pet's body | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **work** | gerund | pet's body *not said here* | | | | | for good | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary | | 4 | **not** **sleep** | present · progressive | body | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **swim** | future | body | | | | again | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run** | infinitive | body *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | body *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **is a** | present | body | anyone's fault | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:0`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/15/) - next →: [When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/55-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies/)