Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 21

"Flatlined" means died or the heart stopped, because the heart monitor shows a flat line; a business can also flatline.

Who acts: heart, heart monitor, business · What happens: flatline, mean, die, stop, show · To what, where: flat line · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 (heart, heart monitor, business), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Flatlined	punct
2	Flatlined	flatline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Flatlined	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shows	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 shows	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monitor	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monitor	compound
14	monitor	monitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shows	nsubj
15	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 line	det
17	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 line	amod
18	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shows	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 flatline	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 business	det
21	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flatline	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 flatline	aux
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 flatline	advmod
24	flatline	flatline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 shows	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	flatline in a quote	participle			tree rules
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	stop	past	the heart		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	show	present	the heart monitor	a flat line	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Recipient
6	flatline	can	a business		tree rules

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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:21.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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