When a parent has died, sentence 0
When a parent dies, they don't come back; that is the hardest truth there is.
Who acts: parent, they, that, hardest truth · What happens: die, not come back, be · To what, where: hardest truth
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday 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 (parent, they, that, hardest truth), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 truth | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 truth | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 truth | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 15 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 truth | amod |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | parataxis |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 truth | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a parent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not come back | present · do-support | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the hardest truth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | the hardest truth not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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