Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 0

Big questions often come at bedtime, in the dark, when the house is quiet: «Mum, will you die?» asks Sophie, and Max lies awake wondering if he might die in his sleep.

Who acts: Big questions, house, you, Sophie, Max · What happens: come, be, die, ask, lie, wondering · To what, where: bedtime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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 (Big questions, house, you, Sophie), 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 questions	amod
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 bedtime	case
6	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dark	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quiet	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 quiet	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quiet	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 quiet	cop
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 asks	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
19	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 die	vocative
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asks	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
26	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
27	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 asks	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lies	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lies	cc
30	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lies	nsubj
31	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 asks	conj
32	awake	awake	ADV	_	31 lies	advmod
33	wondering	wondering	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 lies	advcl
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 die	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 die	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 die	aux
37	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wondering	ccomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 sleep	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sleep	nmod:poss
40	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 die	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Big questions	bedtime	in the dark; often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bedtime=Location
2	is	present	the house		quiet property	tree rules
3	die in a quote	future	you		Mum vocative	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	present	Sophie			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lie	present	Max		awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wondering	gerund	Max not said here			tree rules
7	die a condition, not said to happen	might	Max		in Max's sleep	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sleep=Attribute
8	sleep		Max			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:070-bedtime-fears-will-you-die-mum-and-will-i-die.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): R7-rel-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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