Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 2

Fears often grow after a death: Lily, whose mum died, gets scared every time her dad coughs; but most people live long lives, and her dad can tell her how he looks after his health.

Who acts: Fears, mum, Lily, dad, most people · What happens: grow, die, get, cough, live, tell · To what, where: time, long lives, Mum · 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 (Fears, mum, Lily, dad), 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	Fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 death	det
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Lily	punct
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gets	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mum	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Lily	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gets	punct
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
15	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gets	xcomp
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scared	obl:unmarked
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dad	nmod:poss
19	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coughs	nsubj
20	coughs	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 time	acl:relcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 live	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	nsubj
25	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gets	conj
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lives	amod
27	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tell	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dad	nmod:poss
31	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gets	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 looks	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 looks	nsubj
37	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	advcl
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 health	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 health	nmod:poss
40	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looks	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Fears			after a death	often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	mum					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	get	present	Lily				scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	cough	present	Mum's dad	every time not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme
5	live	present	most people	long lives				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
6	tell speech: assert	can	Mum's dad		Mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	look	present	dad			after dad's health		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: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): 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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