--- title: Nobody can see heaven, so nobody knows for certain where Biscuit is… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody can see heaven, so nobody knows for certain where Biscuit is now; Mrs Patel at Sunday school says, «The Bible doesn't tell us clearly, but God cares for every sparrow, and I trust God with Biscuit,» which is more honest than a promise nobody can keep. Who acts: Nobody, Biscuit, Mrs, Bible. 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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 (Nobody, Biscuit, Mrs, Bible), 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:5 # text = Nobody can see heaven, so nobody knows for certain where Biscuit is now; Mrs Patel at Sunday school says, «The Bible doesn't tell us clearly, but God cares for every sparrow, and I trust God with Biscuit,» which is more honest than a promise nobody can keep. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 6 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 8 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 conj _ _ 12 Biscuit Biscuit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj:outer _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 now now ADV RB _ 8 ccomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 Patel Patel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 42 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Biscuit Biscuit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 50 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 50 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 51 than than SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=54:det 53 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=54:compound 54 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 56 nsubj _ _ 55 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:advcl 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **see** | can | Nobody | heaven | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | for certain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | Biscuit | | | | | now *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mrs at Sunday school | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Bible | | us | | | clearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | | 6 | **care** *in a quote* | present | God | | | | | for every sparrow | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for sparrow=Theme | | 7 | **trust** *in a quote* | present | Mrs at Sunday school *= mrs* | | God | | | with Biscuit | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent god=Recipient with biscuit=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | | | | | | a promise *obl*; honest *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **keep** | can | nobody | a promise *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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