Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 8

Hearing is thought to be one of the last senses to fade, so dying people may still hear kind words.

Who acts: dying people · What happens: think, be, fade, hear · To what, where: Hearing, one, kind words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (dying 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	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	aux:pass
3	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 one	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	cop
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thought	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 senses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 senses	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 senses	amod
10	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fade	mark
12	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 senses	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 hear	advmod
15	dying	die	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hear	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hear	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 hear	advmod
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	advcl
20	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hear	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		Hearing			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		one		of the last senses	tree rules
3	fade	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hear	may	dying people	kind words	still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:8.

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 ×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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