Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 5
When a living thing dies, its body stops working completely and will not start again.
Who acts: living thing, body · What happens: die, stop, work, not start
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 thing, body), 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 | _ | 5 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | living | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dies | nsubj |
| 5 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stops | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 working | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stops | xcomp |
| 11 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 10 working | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 start | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 start | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 start | advmod |
| 15 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stops | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 start | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a living thing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | thing's body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | thing's body not said here | completely property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not start | future | thing's body not said here | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:5.
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. 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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