Moving, new schools, change and grief, sentence 2

Death means the body has stopped working forever, so the person or animal cannot come back; it is not like sleep, and thoughts or wishes can never make someone die.

Who acts: Death, body, person, thoughts, someone · What happens: mean, stop, work, not come back, be, not make · To what, where: someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 (Death, body, person, thoughts), 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	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stopped	aux
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 working	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 animal	cc
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 person	conj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stopped	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sleep	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sleep	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 like	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 sleep	case
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
27	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	nsubj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 wishes	cc
29	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thoughts	conj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 make	advmod
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stopped	conj
33	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 make	obj
34	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 make	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Death			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present · perfect	the body			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	the body not said here		forever property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not come back	can	the person or animal			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	person		like sleep	tree rules
6	not make	can	thoughts or wishes	someone		tree rules
7	not die	infinitive	someone not said here			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:everyday:097-moving-change-and-grief.lesson:2.

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): 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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