Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 6
Death is not sleep: a sleeping animal still breathes and has a heartbeat, and it will wake.
Who acts: Death, sleeping animal · What happens: not be, sleep, breathe, have, wake · To what, where: sleep, heartbeat
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 (Death, sleeping animal), 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 | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | 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 sleep | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 breathes | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heartbeat | det |
| 14 | heartbeat | heartbeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wake | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wake | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wake | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wake | aux |
| 19 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 breathes | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Death | sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | breathe | present | a sleeping animal | still | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a sleeping animal not said here | a heartbeat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartbeat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wake | future | death | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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