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title: Reminders like a lead or a bowl can hurt; some families put them awa… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Reminders like a lead or a bowl can hurt; some families put them away for a while, others keep them close, and both are fine. Who acts: Reminders, families, others, both. A sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi
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# The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 14

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Reminders like a lead or a bowl can hurt; some families put them away for a while, others keep them close, and both are fine.

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**Who acts:** Reminders, families, others, both · **What happens:** hurt, put away, keep, be · **To what, where:** Reminders, family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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 (Reminders, families, others, both), 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:14
# text = Reminders like a lead or a bowl can hurt; some families put them away for a while, others keep them close, and both are fine.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Reminders	reminder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | can | Reminders like a lead or a bowl |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put away** | past | some families | Reminders *= reminder* |  |  | while | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 3 | **keep** | present | others | family |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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