What people leave behind, sentence 17
Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon.
Who acts: Having, it, anyone · What happens: have, be, make, not mean, expect, die · To what, where: life insurance, sensible plan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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 (Having, it, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 plan | csubj |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 insurance | compound |
| 3 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plan | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plan | amod |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plan | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 parents | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 parents | amod |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 mean | advmod |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 plan | parataxis |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 expects | nsubj |
| 18 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 die | mark |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expects | xcomp |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 die | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | life insurance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insurance=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Having | a sensible plan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a sensible plan not said here | by many parents | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | expect | present | anyone | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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, 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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:17.
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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