Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 4

Vivid example: when a teacher says "Sam's nan passed on at the weekend", nobody went anywhere; she died, and the teacher chose a gentle word.

Who acts: Vivid example, nan, nobody, teacher · What happens: say, pass on, go, die, choose · To what, where: gentle word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms 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 (Vivid example, nan, nobody, teacher), 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	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 example	amod
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 says	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nan	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sam	case
11	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 passed	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 weekend	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 weekend	det
16	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	conj
21	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 went	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 died	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 died	nsubj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 chose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 chose	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 teacher	det
28	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chose	nsubj
29	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 died	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 word	det
31	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 word	amod
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chose	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Vivid example				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass on in a quote	past	Sam's nan		weekend		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	nobody			anywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	past	nan				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	choose	past	the teacher	a gentle word			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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, 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:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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