Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 1

Dead is not asleep: a sleeping cat still breathes and will wake up, but a dead bee on the windowsill will never move again, however gently Jayden pokes it.

Who acts: Dead, sleeping cat, dead bee, Jayden · What happens: not be, breathe, wake up, not move, poke · To what, where: bee

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» 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 (Dead, sleeping cat, dead bee, Jayden), 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 asleep	advmod
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cat	compound
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breathes	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 breathes	advmod
10	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wake	cc
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wake	aux
13	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 breathes	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 wake	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 move	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 move	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bee	det
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bee	amod
19	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 move	nsubj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 windowsill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 windowsill	det
22	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bee	nmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 move	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 move	advmod
25	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 breathes	conj
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 move	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pokes	punct
28	however	however	ADV	_	31 pokes	advmod
29	gently	gently	ADV	_	31 pokes	advmod
30	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pokes	nsubj
31	pokes	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pokes	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Dead			asleep property	tree rules
2	breathe	present	a sleeping cat		still		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wake up	future	a sleeping cat not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not move	future	a dead bee on the windowsill		again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	poke	present	Jayden	bee		gently, however property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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