When a grandparent dies, sentence 2
He wasn't in pain.» Ellie asks, «Dead dead?
Who acts: Grandad, Ellie · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: pain · 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 (Grandad, Ellie), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pain | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pain | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pain | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pain | case |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 8 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | nsubj |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pain | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 12 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dead | amod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asks | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | 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 | past | Grandad | pain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | Ellie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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