Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 12

Some grown-ups plan what will happen after they die, such as who gets their things; it does not mean they are dying soon.

Who acts: grown ups, ups, it · What happens: grow, plan, happen, die, get, not mean · To what, where: things · 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 (grown ups, ups, it), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 ups	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plan	nsubj
5	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happen	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 happen	aux
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	ccomp
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 die	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 die	nsubj
11	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happen	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gets	punct
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	16 gets	mark
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gets	nsubj
16	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 die	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 things	nmod:poss
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gets	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mean	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mean	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mean	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 mean	advmod
23	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	parataxis
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dying	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dying	aux
26	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 mean	ccomp
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 dying	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plan	present	some grown ups			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	future				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	present	ups = up			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	get	present		ups's things		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	not mean	present · do-support	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	die	present · progressive	ups = up		soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:12.

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, R8-pos-agree ×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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