Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 1

The honest answer is gentle and true: everyone dies one day, but most people live until they are very old, and most children have many, many years ahead of them; a healthy child dying in their sleep is extremely rare, and sleep is safe.

Who acts: honest answer, everyone, most people, people, most children, healthy child · What happens: be, die, live, have, sleep

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 (honest answer, everyone, most people, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	amod
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gentle	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentle	cop
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 true	cc
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentle	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 dies	punct
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 dies	nsubj
10	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentle	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dies	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 live	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 live	cc
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dies	conj
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 old	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 old	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 old	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 old	advmod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 live	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 children	amod
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentle	conj
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 many	punct
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
32	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	34 them	advmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 years	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 rare	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 child	det
37	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rare	nsubj
39	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 child	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 sleep	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sleep	nmod:poss
42	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dying	obl
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 rare	cop
44	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	45 rare	advmod
45	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentle	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 safe	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 safe	cc
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 safe	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 safe	cop
50	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentle	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gentle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the honest answer		gentle property	tree rules
2	be		the honest answer not said here			tree rules
3	die	present	everyone	day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	live	present	most people			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	people		old property	tree rules
6	have	present	most children	year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	die	gerund	a healthy child not said here		in people's sleep	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sleep=Attribute
8	is	present	a healthy child		extremely, rare property	tree rules
9	is	present	sleep		safe property	tree rules
10	sleep		people			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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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