--- title: Some animals that are very ill or old hide in a quiet place; this is… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals that are very ill or old hide in a quiet place; this is instinct, not a sign that they did not love their family. Who acts: animals, this, tears. 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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 (animals, this, tears), 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:13 # text = Some animals that are very ill or old hide in a quiet place; this is instinct, not a sign that they did not love their family. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 9 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some animals | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some animals *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | present | some animals | | | a quiet place | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | this | instinct | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **love** | past · do-support | tears *= tear* | tears's family | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=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:13`. **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, R5-strong ×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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