--- title: When an animal is very old or ill, in pain and will not get better,… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: When an animal is very old or ill, in pain and will not get better, a vet can give it an injection so that it dies peacefully and without pain; people call this «putting to sleep» or «putting down», but it is not real sleep, and the animal will not wake up. Who acts: animal, vet, people. 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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 (animal, vet, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:0 # text = When an animal is very old or ill, in pain and will not get better, a vet can give it an injection so that it dies peacefully and without pain; people call this «putting to sleep» or «putting down», but it is not real sleep, and the animal will not wake up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 injection injection NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 28 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 29 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 38 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 44 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 45 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 48 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 52 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 58 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 59 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 60 advmod _ _ 60 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 61 up up ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a animal | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a animal *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **get** | future | a animal *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **give** | can | a vet | a injection | animal | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient injection=Theme | | 5 | **die** | present | vet | | | | | peacefully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | people | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient | | 7 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **put down** *in a quote* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **not** **is a** | present | vet | real sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **not** **wake up** | future | the animal | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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