Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 7
Most parents live to be very old, long after their children are grown up.
Who acts: Most parents · What happens: live, be, grow up · To what, where: children
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 (Most parents), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 parents | amod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 old | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 old | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grown | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 grown | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 grown | mark |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux:pass |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 live | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Most parents | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Most parents not said here | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | present · passive | parents's children | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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