When a grandparent dies, sentence 0
When a grandparent dies, their body has stopped working and they will not wake up or come back; it is very sad, and it is never a child's fault, whatever was said or done before.
Who acts: grandparent, body, they · What happens: die, stop, work, not wake up, come back, be · To what, where: fault, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 (grandparent, body, they), 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 | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grandparent | det |
| 3 | grandparent | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | aux |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stopped | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wake | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wake | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wake | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wake | advmod |
| 15 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 wake | compound:prt |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wake | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sad | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sad | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sad | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sad | advmod |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stopped | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fault | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fault | cc |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fault | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fault | cop |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 fault | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 child | det |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fault | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 child | case |
| 33 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sad | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 35 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 said | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 said | aux:pass |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 fault | acl:relcl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 done | cc |
| 39 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 said | conj |
| 40 | before | before | ADV | _ | 39 done | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a grandparent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect | their body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | their body not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not wake up | future | they | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | come back | infinitive | they not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | body | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not is a | present | body | a child's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past · passive | whatever | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 9 | do | participle | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:0.
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 ×2. 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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