Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 15
Nobody knows exactly when a person will die, and many people live well into their 80s and 90s.
Who acts: Nobody, person, many people · What happens: know, die, live · To what, where: 80s · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics 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 (Nobody, person, many people), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 die | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 die | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 80s | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 80s | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 80s | 80 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 live | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 90s | cc |
| 19 | 90s | 90s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 80s | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | future | a person | exactly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | live | present | many people | people's 80s and 90s | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:religion-ethics:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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