When a grandparent dies, sentence 9
Words cannot make someone die; a death from illness or old age is never a child's fault.
Who acts: Words, someone, death · What happens: not make, not die, not be · To what, where: someone, fault
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 (Words, someone, death), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 death | det |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 illness | case |
| 11 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 death | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 age | cc |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 age | amod |
| 14 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 illness | conj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fault | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 fault | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fault | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 child | case |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | Words | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not die | infinitive | someone not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | a death from illness or old age | a child's fault | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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