Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 12
Some living things die young through illness, accidents or bad conditions; often nobody can know the exact reason.
Who acts: living things, nobody · What happens: die, know · To what, where: illness, exact reason
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 (living things, nobody), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 things | det |
| 2 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 die | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 illness | case |
| 7 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accidents | punct |
| 9 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 illness | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 accidents | cc |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conditions | amod |
| 12 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 illness | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 die | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 reason | det |
| 19 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reason | amod |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | 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 | some living things | illness or accidents and bad conditions | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | know | can | nobody | the exact reason | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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:12.
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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