--- title: Picture Megan's family and their old dog, Biscuit: he can hardly sta… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Megan's family and their old dog, Biscuit: he can hardly stand and hurts every day, and Mum says, «We're not doing this because we don't love him. Who acts: you, dog, Mum, We. 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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 (you, dog, Mum, We), 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:1 # text = Picture Megan's family and their old dog, Biscuit: he can hardly stand and hurts every day, and Mum says, «We're not doing this because we don't love him. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Megan Megan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 26 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 ccomp _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obj _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Megan's family and family's old dog and Biscuit | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | can | dog | | | | day | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hurt** | present | dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **love** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we | dog | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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:1`. **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, 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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