--- title: Vets suggest this when an animal is very ill or in pain and cannot g… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: Vets suggest this when an animal is very ill or in pain and cannot get better; it is often called a mercy. Who acts: Vets, animal. 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 pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/56-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [The old dog, the vet and the hardest g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/56-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye/) / 7 # The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 7 Vets suggest this when an animal is very ill or in pain and cannot get better; it is often called a mercy. **Who acts:** Vets, animal · **What happens:** suggest, be, not get, call · **To what, where:** this, animal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, animal), 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:7 # text = Vets suggest this when an animal is very ill or in pain and cannot get better; it is often called a mercy. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Vets | this | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | a animal | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **get** | can | a animal *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | animal | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:7`. **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): 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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