--- title: «Gone to a better place» and «gone to sleep» are soft ways of saying… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: «Gone to a better place» and «gone to sleep» are soft ways of saying «died»; clear words help children most. Who acts: soft ways, clear words. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 11 «Gone to a better place» and «gone to sleep» are soft ways of saying «died»; clear words help children most. **Who acts:** soft ways, clear words · **What happens:** go, be, say, die, help · **To what, where:** better place, soft ways, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (soft ways, clear words), 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:11 # text = «Gone to a better place» and «gone to sleep» are soft ways of saying «died»; clear words help children most. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 nsubj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 23 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | participle | | | | a better place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | | soft ways | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | soft ways *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **help** | present | clear words | | children | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | 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:11`. **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 ×1, 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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