--- title: The animal gets very sleepy and dies within a minute or two; it is q… — The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye · tree and pragmatics description: The animal gets very sleepy and dies within a minute or two; it is quiet, and some families choose to stay with it. Who acts: animal, 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 8 The animal gets very sleepy and dies within a minute or two; it is quiet, and some families choose to stay with it. **Who acts:** animal, families · **What happens:** get, die, be, choose, stay 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 (animal, 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:8 # text = The animal gets very sleepy and dies within a minute or two; it is quiet, and some families choose to stay with it. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 within within ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the animal | | | | | sleepy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **die** | present | the animal *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | present | animal | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **choose** | present | some families | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | some families *not said here* | | | | | with animal | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with it=Location | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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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