What people leave behind, sentence 5
A will is a legal paper someone writes while alive, saying who gets their money, house and belongings after they die; the person who carries it out is called the executor.
Who acts: will, someone, Pets, person · What happens: be, write, say, get, die, carry out · To what, where: legal paper, money, person · 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 (will, someone, Pets, person), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 will | det |
| 2 | will | will | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paper | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 paper | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 paper | det |
| 5 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 paper | amod |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 writes | nsubj |
| 8 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 paper | acl:relcl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 alive | mark |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 writes | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 paper | advcl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 money | nmod:poss |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 money | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 belongings | cc |
| 20 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 money | conj |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 die | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 die | nsubj |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gets | advcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 person | det |
| 26 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 called | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 carries | nsubj |
| 28 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 person | acl:relcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carries | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 carries | compound:prt |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | aux:pass |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gets | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 executor | det |
| 34 | executor | executor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 called | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paper | punct |
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 | is a | present | a will | a legal paper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | present | someone | a legal paper not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a will not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | present | Pets's money and house and belongings | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | die | present | Pets = pet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | carry out | present | the person | person | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | call | present · passive | the person | 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, 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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