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title: Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families h… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics
description: Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake. Who acts: Vets, families. A sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 15

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Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake.

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**Who acts:** Vets, families · **What happens:** make, keep, have · **To what, where:** paw print, lock, keepsake

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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 (Vets, families), 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:15
# text = Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	keepsake	keepsake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | Vets | a paw print |  |  |  | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset print=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Vets *not said here* | a lock of fur |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | families | a keepsake |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keepsake=Patient |

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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): R8-pos-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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