--- title: Sadness for a pet is real grief, because a pet is a friend you saw e… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics description: Sadness for a pet is real grief, because a pet is a friend you saw every day; nobody should say «it's just a bird», and it is normal to feel sad, angry, or to want someone to blame. Who acts: Sadness, pet, you, nobody. 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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 (Sadness, pet, you, nobody), 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:2 # text = Sadness for a pet is real grief, because a pet is a friend you saw every day; nobody should say «it's just a bird», and it is normal to feel sad, angry, or to want someone to blame. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 21 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 23 « « PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 expl _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 csubj _ _ 37 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj 44 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | Sadness for a pet | real grief | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a pet | a friend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | you | a friend *not said here* | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | nobody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | pet | bird » | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | nobody *not said here* | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** | | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **want** | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | | 10 | **blame** | to-infinitive | | someone *not said here* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: 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:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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